BlockRichmond, Alabama
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Carlowville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36761. The Survey maps it on the Carlowville quadrangle. It stands 390 feet above sea level.
On record in Richmond
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register within a mile 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Street Manual Training Schoollisted 1999 · 0.4 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 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.
- 1953 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Carlowville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Selma quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1987 USGS Carlowville quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
29 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Richmond between 1995 and 2019, burning about 394 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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 | 10 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20160909-21 |
| 6 September 2002 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 19 September 1997 | Arson/incendiarism | 4.5 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 9 July 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 83 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 9 July 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 18 July 2000 | Debris and open burning | 16 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 1 July 2019 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20190701-4 |
| 1 July 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.3 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 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.
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.
| Wikipedia article on Richmond | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4259733 | 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 153148. 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.