Roxana, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Hope Hull census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36105. The Survey maps it on the Snowdoun quadrangle.

Roxana within Montgomery County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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 Montgomery quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Letohatchee quadrangle1:62500
1957 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Snowdoun quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

57 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Roxana between 1994 and 2019, burning about 476 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 was 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	23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Smoking	8
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Recreation and ceremony	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Natural	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
21 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	5.3 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190921-20
14 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	SPRAGE JUNCTION ROAD, AL
13 September 1998	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
28 August 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20170828-2
24 August 2000	Smoking	2.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
24 August 2000	Smoking	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
18 August 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20170818-2
17 August 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	6.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	BUTLER MILL RD , AL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montgomery 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
Le Grand	1.4 miles	11
Hobbie Farm	1.6 miles	10
Tharin	1.6 miles	11
Canaan	2.3 miles	11
Pine Needles	2.5 miles	11
Robinson Crossroads	3.1 miles	10
Sprague	3.5 miles	11
Snowdoun	4.2 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 157000. 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.