Rockwest, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Camden census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36726. The Survey maps it on the Camden South quadrangle. It stands 128 feet above sea level.

Rockwest within Wilcox County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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
1973 USGS Camden South quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Monroeville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

158 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 158 fires within 5 miles of Rockwest between 1994 and 2020, burning about 565 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 7 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	63
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	33
Equipment and vehicle use	29
Misuse of fire by a minor	10
Arson/incendiarism	7
Recreation and ceremony	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Natural	2
Other causes	1
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
8 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1997	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2016	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160906-11
30 September 2019	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190930-28
3 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190903-5
29 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.2 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wilcox County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Rockwest: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Zirconium, Kyanite, Titanium, Metal. 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
	Alabama River Gravel-Wilcox Co	Sand and Gravel, Construction, Zirconium, Kyanite, Titanium, Metal	Producer	Placer

Every working recorded in Wilcox 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
Camden	4.3 miles	8
Pebble Hill	4.5 miles	8
Coal Bluff	5.2 miles	7
Yellow Bluff	5.6 miles	7
Midway	6.1 miles	9
Dry Forks	6.8 miles	8
Nellie	6.8 miles	7
Millers Ferry	6.9 miles	9

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 Rockwest	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7355686	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 156984. 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.