Rabbittown, Alabama

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 2000. It stands in the Double Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35565. It lies near Balls Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Bee Branch quadrangle.

Rabbittown within Winston County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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.

1936 USGS Moulton quadrangle1:48000
1936 USGS Mt Hope quadrangle1:62500
1940 USGS Mt Hope quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Bee Branch quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Haleyville quadrangle1:100000
2000 USGS Bee Branch quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

70 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Rabbittown between 1992 and 2020, burning about 618 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 26 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	26
Debris and open burning	21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Recreation and ceremony	5
Smoking	2
Natural	2
Other causes	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
13 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 2016	Debris and open burning	65 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160912-4
31 August 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
30 August 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
27 August 1995	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	National Forests in Alabama	MACEDONIA
23 August 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
20 August 2007	Arson/incendiarism	4.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
17 August 2000	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 Winston 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
Ashridge	2.5 miles	11
Forkville	3.0 miles	12
Pebble	3.1 miles	12
Pleasant Hill	4.2 miles	11
Littleville	4.3 miles	12
Needmore	4.6 miles	13
Blue Springs	4.8 miles	11
DeFoor	4.9 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 160464. 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.