Tattlersville, Alabama

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Coffeeville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36545. The Survey maps it on the Tattlersville quadrangle.

Tattlersville within Clarke County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 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 Hattiesburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Hattiesburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1972 USGS Tattlersville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Hattiesburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Waynesboro quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

37 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Tattlersville between 1994 and 2019, burning about 354 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 10 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	11
Arson/incendiarism	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Recreation and ceremony	5
Natural	2
Smoking	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
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
3 September 2000	Natural	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2004	Arson/incendiarism	12 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
27 August 2000	Debris and open burning	30 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
24 August 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
8 July 1995	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
20 July 2000	Natural	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
13 May 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	SWR-20150513-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clarke 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
Coffeeville	3.6 miles	12
Center Point	5.4 miles	12
Salitpa	6.0 miles	12
Fakit Chipunta (historical)	6.3 miles	12
McEntyre	8.2 miles	7
Mays Crossroads	8.4 miles	8
Winn	8.5 miles	8
West Bend	8.7 miles	12

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 Tattlersville	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7688426	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 127713. 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.