Pumpkin Center, Alabama

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Fort Payne census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35967. The Survey maps it on the Fort Payne quadrangle.

Pumpkin Center within DeKalb County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 23 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.

1893 USGS Fort Payne quadrangle1:125000
1898 USGS Fort Payne quadrangle1:125000
1900 USGS Fort Payne quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1946 USGS Fort Payne quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1946 USGS Ft Payne quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1947 USGS Ft Payne quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Rome quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

190 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 190 fires within 5 miles of Pumpkin Center between 1992 and 2020, burning about 9,942 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 92 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	92
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	45
Debris and open burning	23
Recreation and ceremony	20
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Smoking	2
Natural	1
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
9 September 2010	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
9 September 1995	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Little River Canyon National Preserve	STATEC0115
5 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Little River Canyon National Preserve	EDNA HILL 1
28 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	30 acres	Little River Canyon National Preserve	DUNNROAD
22 September 2019	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Little River Canyon National Preserve	SLANT ROCK CAMPFIRE
22 September 2010	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	4.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	12 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in DeKalb County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Pumpkin Center: 2 occurrences, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Clay. 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
Che 6 Clay Prospect	Clay	Prospect
Unnamed Prospect	Iron	Occurrence
Unnamed Prospect	Iron	Occurrence

Every working recorded in DeKalb 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
Fisher Crossroads	2.3 miles	23
Adamsburg	3.2 miles	23
Rawlingsville (historical)	3.8 miles	23
Minvale	4.4 miles	23
Fort Payne	4.5 miles	23
Douglas	5.0 miles	23
Alpine	5.0 miles	22
Lake Howard	5.1 miles	22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 150473. 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.