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Reid Settlement, Alabama

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the McIntosh census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36553. It lies near Hurricane Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Calvert quadrangle.

Reid Settlement within Washington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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.

Fires near this place

907 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 907 fires within 5 miles of Reid Settlement between 1994 and 2020, burning about 18,937 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 400 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/incendiarism400
Debris and open burning251
Missing data/not specified/undetermined185
Recreation and ceremony43
Equipment and vehicle use12
Smoking10
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Natural2
Other causes1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 1997Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2006Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2004Arson/incendiarism25 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2015Arson/incendiarism138 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20150904-001
30 September 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2008Debris and open burning17 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2003Debris and open burning27 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1997Arson/incendiarism30 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Reid Settlement: 2 prospects, 1 producer, 1 plant. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Salt, Bromine, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Mcintosh Salt DomeBromineProducer1945, 1953
Was 9 Clay ProspectClayProspect
Nichols Works PlantSaltPlant
Olin Mathieson Salt DepositSaltProspect

Every working recorded in Washington 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Sims Chapel3.2 miles15
McIntosh3.8 miles14
Topton3.9 miles14
Happy Hill5.1 miles15
Fairford5.7 miles15
Chestang5.9 miles15
Hawthorn6.0 miles14
Malcolm6.1 miles15

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 Q122596414The 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 125558. 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.