Ramah, Alabama

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

Ramah 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
1971 USGS Burnt Corn quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Monroeville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

88 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 88 fires within 5 miles of Ramah between 1994 and 2019, burning about 739 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 16 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	37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	19
Arson/incendiarism	16
Recreation and ceremony	9
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Natural	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Smoking	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	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190930-3
28 September 2006	Debris and open burning	14 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
28 August 2014	Smoking	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	SWR-20140828-001
18 August 2002	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
4 July 1996	Misuse of fire by a minor	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
27 July 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Conecuh County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Ramah: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unnamed	Iron	Unknown

Every working 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
Harpers Store	1.3 miles	7
Green Street	2.5 miles	7
Fowler	2.7 miles	8
Burnt Corn	4.2 miles	7
Fairnelson	4.7 miles	8
Skinnerton	5.5 miles	8
Brantley Crossing	8.1 miles	7
Bookers Mill	8.1 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156943. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.