Saucer, Alabama

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Forest Home census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36030. It stands on Black Branch. The Survey maps it on the Forest Home quadrangle. It stands 381 feet above sea level.

Saucer within Butler County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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
1981 USGS Forest Home quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

93 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 93 fires within 5 miles of Saucer between 1994 and 2019, burning about 1,104 acres in total. None started naturally. 30 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	30
Debris and open burning	29
Equipment and vehicle use	17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	5
Recreation and ceremony	3
Smoking	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
26 September 2015	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	SER-20150926-001
23 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	2.1 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2017	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20170919-2
23 August 1996	Recreation and ceremony	9.4 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
15 August 1996	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Butler County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Saucer: 3 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed Deposit	Iron	Occurrence
Unnamed Mine	Iron	Past Producer
Unnamed Mine	Iron	Past Producer
Unnamed Mine	Iron	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Butler 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
Butler Springs	2.2 miles	7
Forest Home	2.7 miles	7
Shacklesville	3.2 miles	7
Monterey	6.1 miles	7
Manningham	6.4 miles	8
Sand Cut	6.4 miles	8
Providence	7.0 miles	7
Ridgeville	7.1 miles	8

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 Saucer	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q55632622	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 135056. 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.