BlockRaley Forest Hill, Alabama
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Atmore census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36502. The Survey maps it on the Freemanville quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1942 USGS Perdido quadrangle1:62500
- 1944 USGS Perdido quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Freemanville quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Atmore quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 2002 USGS Perdido quadrangle1:50000
Fires near this place
112 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 112 fires within 5 miles of Raley Forest Hill between 1992 and 2018, burning about 790 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 23 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 | 44 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 23 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 14 |
| Smoking | 6 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 6 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 2007 | Smoking | 22 acres | Florida Forest Service | 17-JAKE'S ROAD FIRE-1553 |
| 30 September 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.5 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 26 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | 2165 JAMES RD, AL |
| 25 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 10 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 August 2004 | Debris and open burning | 1.3 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 24 August 1994 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 21 August 2007 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 17 August 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atmore | 1.3 miles | 9 | |
| Briar Lake Estates | 1.8 miles | 9 | |
| Southern Estates | 2.0 miles | 9 | |
| Nokomis | 2.8 miles | 11 | |
| Old Bratt Road Estates | 3.0 miles | 12 | |
| Malta | 3.1 miles | 9 | |
| Pleasant Hill | 3.7 miles | 9 | |
| Freemanville | 4.2 miles | 11 |
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.
| Wikidata item Q122569576 | 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 133866. 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.