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Standard, Alabama

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Parrish census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35580. It stands on Coal Creek. The Survey maps it on the Parrish quadrangle.

Standard within Walker County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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.

Fires near this place

418 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 418 fires within 5 miles of Standard between 1994 and 2020, burning about 6,163 acres in total. None started naturally. 241 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/incendiarism241
Debris and open burning114
Missing data/not specified/undetermined35
Recreation and ceremony9
Smoking4
Other causes4
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Fireworks1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2006Arson/incendiarism20 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2003Arson/incendiarism3.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commission1768 NEW PARRISH HWY, AL
6 September 1999Debris and open burning1.2 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1995Debris and open burning2.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1995Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2019Arson/incendiarism12 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190904-5

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Parrish0.8 miles17
America1.0 miles17
Big Ridge1.9 miles23
Aldridge2.5 miles23
Deason Hill2.6 miles23
Bradleytown2.7 miles23
Mount Hope2.8 miles19
Williamstown2.8 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 127298. 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.