Rescueville, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Silas census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36919. The Survey maps it on the Millry North quadrangle.

Rescueville within Choctaw County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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 Hattiesburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Hattiesburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1974 USGS Millry North quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Hattiesburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Waynesboro quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

77 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 77 fires within 5 miles of Rescueville between 1994 and 2020, burning about 810 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	32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	22
Arson/incendiarism	11
Recreation and ceremony	6
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Natural	2
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
9 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 1995	Debris and open burning	25 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2010	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 1994	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	74 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	SWR-20130919-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Choctaw County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Rescueville: 1 prospect, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Bromine. 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
	Cullom Springs Well	Bromine	Occurrence	1884
	Was 2 Clay Prospect	Clay	Prospect

Every working recorded in Choctaw 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
Cullomburg	2.0 miles	11
Bladon Springs	4.2 miles	11
Silas	5.7 miles	12
Bolinger	6.5 miles	12
Flatwood	6.9 miles	12
Aquilla	7.9 miles	12
Contwell	8.7 miles	12
Souwilpa	9.0 miles	12

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 Q122548450

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 140102. 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.