Rock Creek, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 2000. It stands in the Double Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35553. It stands on Rock Creek. The Survey maps it on the Double Springs quadrangle.

Rock Creek within Winston County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Double Springs quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1980 USGS Haleyville quadrangle1:100000
2000 USGS Double Springs quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

96 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 96 fires within 5 miles of Rock Creek between 1992 and 2020, burning about 521 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 38 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/incendiarism	38
Debris and open burning	27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Recreation and ceremony	5
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Smoking	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Natural	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
7 September 1996	Recreation and ceremony	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1995	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	National Forests in Alabama	WILBURN FORD #2
3 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1999	Smoking	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	1.6 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
31 August 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
30 August 2000	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	National Forests in Alabama	CUT OFF

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Winston 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
Haricon (historical)	1.5 miles	11
Welbornville (historical)	2.1 miles	11
Gray (historical)	2.5 miles	11
Blue Springs	2.7 miles	11
Pleasant Hill	3.3 miles	11
Double Springs	3.4 miles	11
Fairview	4.1 miles	11
Robinson Bottoms (historical)	4.4 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 160504. 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.