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Plainview, Alabama

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Ranburne census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36264. It stands on Owen Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fruithurst quadrangle.

Plainview within Cleburne County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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.

Fires near this place

506 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 506 fires within 5 miles of Plainview between 1992 and 2020, burning about 8,016 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 311 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/incendiarism311
Debris and open burning134
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Recreation and ceremony12
Equipment and vehicle use7
Railroad operations and maintenance7
Natural3
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2016Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160909-18
8 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190908-8
7 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1995Recreation and ceremony8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2016Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160905-8
5 September 2016Debris and open burning10 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-HARALSON-003
5 September 1997Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2016Arson/incendiarism33 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160930-24

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cleburne County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Plainview: 2 occurrences, 2 prospects, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bennifield ProspectGoldOccurrenceGold
Bennifield ProspectGoldProspect
Marion White ProspectGoldOccurrenceGold
Marion White ProspectGoldPast ProducerVein
Marion White ProspectGoldProspect

Every working recorded in Cleburne 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Abernathy1.3 miles15
Lebanon1.5 miles15
Hopewell2.4 miles15
Ai3.0 miles15
Muscadine4.8 miles15
Fruithurst5.0 miles15
Bell Mills5.5 miles14
Lecta5.7 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156905. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.