Pumpkin Center, Alabama

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Quinton-Wegra census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35130. The Survey maps it on the Goodsprings quadrangle.

Pumpkin Center within Walker County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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 Jasper quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1935 USGS Port Birmingham quadrangle1:48000
1938 USGS Port Birmingham quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1953 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Goodsprings quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1975 USGS Goodsprings quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Jasper quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

290 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 290 fires within 5 miles of Pumpkin Center between 1994 and 2020, burning about 6,698 acres in total. None started naturally. 136 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	136
Debris and open burning	89
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	34
Recreation and ceremony	9
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Smoking	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
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 2002	Arson/incendiarism	35 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
9 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1995	Debris and open burning	5.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1995	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Walker 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
Reeds Ferry	2.5 miles	24
Wegra	2.7 miles	24
Gorgas	2.9 miles	23
Quintown	3.3 miles	24
High Level	3.6 miles	23
Short Camp	3.9 miles	23
Twilley Town	3.9 miles	24
Pennsylvania Camp (historical)	4.1 miles	23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 153090. 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.