Pope, Alabama

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Dixons Mill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36769. The Survey maps it on the Kimbrough quadrangle. It stands 151 feet above sea level.

Pope within Marengo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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.

1953 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Kimbrough quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Selma quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

91 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 91 fires within 5 miles of Pope between 1994 and 2020, burning about 789 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 3 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
Debris and open burning	35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	29
Recreation and ceremony	10
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Arson/incendiarism	3
Smoking	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Natural	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
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
8 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1995	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1994	Recreation and ceremony	15 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2020	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20200927-1
16 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190916-7
16 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160916-10
15 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marengo 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
Moores Valley	0.3 miles	10
Hampden	1.3 miles	10
Vineland	2.6 miles	10
Surginer	4.5 miles	10
Ellison (historical)	5.1 miles	10
Magnolia	5.5 miles	9
Shiloh	7.4 miles	9
Clayhill	7.4 miles	10

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Pope	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18389362	The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156917. 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.