Rainbow, Alabama

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Madison census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35758. It stands on Rainbow Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Jeff quadrangle. It stands 784 feet above sea level.

Rainbow within Madison County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

1888 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1936 USGS Jeff quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Jeff quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Jeff quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1984 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

60 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Rainbow between 1994 and 2019, burning about 118 acres in total. None started naturally. 10 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	29
Arson/incendiarism	10
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
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
3 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 1997	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 1997	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 2000	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2000	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison 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
Chickasaw Estates	0.6 miles	27
Stone Ridge	0.9 miles	27
Rainbow Mountain Heights	1.2 miles	27
Vaughn Corners	1.8 miles	23
Old Monrovia	2.0 miles	23
Indian Hills	2.0 miles	27
Northwood	2.1 miles	21
Rolling Woods	2.1 miles	25

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Rainbow	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18393193	The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 125415. 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.