Pigeon Roost, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 2000. It stands in the Double Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35553. It stands on Pigeon Roost Branch. The Survey maps it on the Double Springs quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Pigeon Roost within Winston County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Double Springs quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1980 USGS Haleyville quadrangle1:100000
2000 USGS Double Springs quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

146 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 146 fires within 5 miles of Pigeon Roost (historical) between 1993 and 2019, burning about 1,943 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 67 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Arson/incendiarism	67
Debris and open burning	34
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20
Recreation and ceremony	7
Smoking	5
Natural	5
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Other causes	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
7 September 2000	Natural	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1996	Recreation and ceremony	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2018	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20180903-4
3 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2006	Natural	under an acre	National Forests in Alabama	MASHER BRANCH 2
23 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	8.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	7.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Winston County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Scoggins Bottoms (historical)	1.9 miles	13
Tolen Hill (historical)	2.7 miles	11
Double Springs	3.9 miles	11
Booger Tree (historical)	4.3 miles	13
Welbornville (historical)	4.5 miles	11
Kaeiser Bottoms (historical)	5.6 miles	11
Blue Springs	5.7 miles	11
Bethel (historical)	6.1 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2680945. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.