Russell Village, Alabama

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Decatur census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35601. It lies near Cedar Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Decatur quadrangle.

Russell Village within Morgan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 25 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.

1888 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1936 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:24000
1950 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:24000
1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1975 USGS Decatur quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1984 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

36 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Russell Village between 1995 and 2019, burning about 279 acres in total. None 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	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Arson/incendiarism	7
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Recreation and ceremony	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2

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 2015	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	NOR-20150908-001
5 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2007	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
28 August 2018	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20180828-3
26 August 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	40 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
17 August 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	40 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
25 May 2016	Debris and open burning	7.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160525-3
25 May 1999	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge	WEDDYSANLI

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morgan 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
Cedar Lake	1.1 miles	25
Longleaf Estates	1.3 miles	25
Austinville	1.3 miles	15
Bayside	1.3 miles	25
Simpson	1.5 miles	15
Fairview	1.6 miles	25
Oakworth	1.9 miles	25
Griffin Addition	2.4 miles	15

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 Q122541491

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 153231. 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.