Red Oak, Alabama

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Falco census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36442. The Survey maps it on the Libertyville quadrangle.

Red Oak within Covington 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 Libertyville quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

52 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Red Oak between 1992 and 2020, burning about 485 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 11 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	16
Arson/incendiarism	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Recreation and ceremony	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Natural	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
12 September 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 2019	Debris and open burning	40 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190910-6
10 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.3 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
31 August 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
23 August 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 July 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	21 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190705-8
21 June 2016	Arson/incendiarism	1.3 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160621-2
16 June 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Covington 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
Shiloh	2.2 miles	7
Lakeview (historical)	2.7 miles	7
Stanley	4.3 miles	7
Huckaville	4.8 miles	7
Libertyville	7.0 miles	7
Carolina	7.8 miles	8
Beda	8.9 miles	8
Blue Springs	9.2 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 161640. 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.