Slicklizzard, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Nauvoo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35578. It stands on Dry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Carbon Hill quadrangle. It stands 331 feet above sea level.

Slicklizzard within Walker 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 Birmingham quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Carbon Hill quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1984 USGS Jasper quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

203 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 203 fires within 5 miles of Slicklizzard between 1994 and 2020, burning about 2,037 acres in total. None started naturally. 94 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	94
Debris and open burning	62
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25
Recreation and ceremony	15
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Other causes	2
Smoking	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
9 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	16 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
9 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	40 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1995	Debris and open burning	2.4 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	9.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Walker 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
Flatwood	1.3 miles	11
Nauvoo	1.9 miles	18
Spring Hill	3.1 miles	11
Dogtown	3.6 miles	11
Prospect	3.7 miles	18
Kansas	5.1 miles	11
Carbon Hill	5.2 miles	11
Clarke	5.3 miles	11

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 Slicklizzard	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18378631	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 163915. 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.