Shreve, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Shreve census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36456. The Survey maps it on the McKenzie quadrangle.

Shreve within Conecuh 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
1971 USGS Mc Kenzie quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

134 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 134 fires within 5 miles of Shreve between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,303 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 38 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	52
Arson/incendiarism	38
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Recreation and ceremony	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Natural	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
7 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	8.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20170929-2
15 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160915-7
26 August 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	SWR-20140826-002
8 July 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
4 July 2006	Misuse of fire by a minor	5.1 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
25 July 2000	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 July 2002	Natural	30 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Conecuh 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 Shreve: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
	But 6 Clay Prospect	Clay	Prospect

Every working recorded in Conecuh 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
Travis Bridge	5.8 miles	7
Flat Rock	6.9 miles	7
Cohassett	7.9 miles	8
Wilcox	9.0 miles	8
Mount Union	9.1 miles	7
Old Town	9.2 miles	7
Rabb	10.4 miles	7
Brownville	10.6 miles	7

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 Shreve	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q88922235	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 157055. 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.