Sunlight, Alabama

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 2000. It stands in the Sipsey census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35504. The Survey maps it on the Sunlight quadrangle.

Sunlight within Walker County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 19 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.

1893 USGS Jasper quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1949 USGS Sunlight quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1951 USGS Sunlight quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1953 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Jasper quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
2000 USGS Sunlight quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

132 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 132 fires within 5 miles of Sunlight between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,392 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 49 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	49
Debris and open burning	44
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18
Recreation and ceremony	9
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Other causes	2
Smoking	2
Natural	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Fireworks	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 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	14 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2000	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 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
Curry	1.9 miles	19
Burrows Crossroads	2.8 miles	19
South Lowell	3.3 miles	18
Marylee	3.7 miles	19
Camak Mills (historical)	4.3 miles	18
Red Rock	4.7 miles	19
Five Points	4.7 miles	18
Hillsdale	5.0 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 160693. 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.