Rabb, Alabama

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Evergreen census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36401. The Survey maps it on the Evergreen quadrangle.

Rabb within Conecuh County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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 Andalusia quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Evergreen quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

165 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 165 fires within 5 miles of Rabb between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,538 acres in total. None 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	77
Arson/incendiarism	29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	27
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Recreation and ceremony	7
Railroad operations and maintenance	7
Smoking	3
Other causes	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Fireworks	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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	22 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2002	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2001	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2010	Other causes	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2005	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2005	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2005	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 2007	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 Conecuh 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
Old Town	2.0 miles	7
Brownville	2.3 miles	7
Centerville	2.7 miles	7
Flat Rock	4.0 miles	7
Evergreen	4.1 miles	7
Owassa	4.6 miles	7
Wilcox	4.8 miles	8
Travis Bridge	5.0 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 133173. 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.