Starlington, Alabama

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Chapman census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36033. The Survey maps it on the Georgiana West quadrangle.

Starlington 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
1971 USGS Georgiana West quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

194 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 194 fires within 5 miles of Starlington between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,459 acres in total. None started naturally. 34 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	52
Debris and open burning	51
Equipment and vehicle use	37
Arson/incendiarism	34
Recreation and ceremony	15
Smoking	4
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
6 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190906-3
6 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190906-2
30 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	30 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Beacon	2.7 miles	7
Providence	3.3 miles	7
Georgiana	5.1 miles	9
Grace	5.2 miles	8
Chapman	6.0 miles	9
Mount Olive	6.8 miles	8
East Chapman	6.8 miles	9
Shacklesville	7.2 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.

Wikidata item Q122553773

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 127322. 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.