Poplar Creek, Alabama

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Leighton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35646. It stands on Watson Spring Branch. The Survey maps it on the Old Bethel quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Poplar Creek within Colbert County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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.

1924 USGS Tuscumbia quadrangle1:48000
1924 USGS Tuscumbia quadrangle1:62500
1926 USGS Tuscumbia quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1936 USGS Old Bethel quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Old Bethel quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Tuscumbia quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

117 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 117 fires within 5 miles of Poplar Creek (historical) between 1994 and 2019, burning about 1,004 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 29 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	44
Arson/incendiarism	29
Equipment and vehicle use	22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Recreation and ceremony	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Natural	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Smoking	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
9 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160909-9
8 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160908-16
6 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	80 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Colbert County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Poplar Creek (historical): 8 unknowns, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Kent Mountain Mines	Iron	Past Producer	Goethite
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown

Every working recorded in Colbert 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
La Grange	2.1 miles	19
Old Bethel	2.4 miles	19
Campbell Settlement (historical)	2.4 miles	19
Whiteoak	2.9 miles	19
Pane (historical)	3.0 miles	19
Bingham	3.3 miles	15
La Grange (historical)	3.5 miles	19
Hunter (historical)	4.2 miles	19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 132996. 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.