Salt Well, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Demopolis census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36732. The Survey maps it on the Jefferson quadrangle. It stands 112 feet above sea level.

Salt Well within Marengo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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 Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Jefferson quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1986 USGS Selma quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

36 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Salt Well between 1994 and 2017, burning about 395 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	19
Debris and open burning	12
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Natural	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
27 September 2006	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2006	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
7 July 2012	Natural	13 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	SWR-20120707-001
21 July 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	CO.RD.57, AL
2 July 2009	Power generation/transmission/distribution	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	U S HWY 80, AL
28 May 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	SWR-20120528-002
26 May 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160526-12

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marengo 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
Paces (historical)	1.3 miles	11
Moscow	3.7 miles	11
Jefferson	5.2 miles	11
Shortleaf	5.5 miles	12
Rockcut	6.1 miles	12
Demopolis	6.5 miles	12
Baptist Hill	6.7 miles	12
Spocari	7.5 miles	12

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 Salt Well	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14679447	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 126271. 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.