BlockPoplar Creek, Alabama
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Athens census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35611. The Survey maps it on the Ripley quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 15 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1936 USGS Ripley quadrangle1:24000
- 1948 USGS Ripley quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1951 USGS Ripley quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 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
70 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Poplar Creek between 1994 and 2020, burning about 512 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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 | 34 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 7 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20190924-28 |
| 24 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 20 September 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20190920-5 |
| 2 September 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | 200 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 16 September 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20190916-8 |
| 13 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 August 1997 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 July 2012 | Fireworks | 5.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | NOR-20120703-004 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Springs Park | 2.1 miles | 15 | |
| Elk Estates | 2.3 miles | 15 | |
| Ripley | 2.3 miles | 15 | |
| Coxey | 2.9 miles | 15 | |
| Lazy Living Acres | 3.4 miles | 15 | |
| Beechwood Acres | 3.4 miles | 15 | |
| Lentzville | 3.5 miles | 15 | |
| Blackburn | 3.7 miles | 15 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 125144. 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.