Toadvine, Alabama

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Maytown-Sylvan Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35023. It stands on Turkey Branch. The Survey maps it on the Oak Grove quadrangle.

Toadvine within Jefferson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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.

1899 USGS Brookwood quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1927 USGS Adger quadrangle1:48000
1932 USGS Yolande quadrangle1:62500
1935 USGS Yolande quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1953 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
1975 USGS Yolande NW quadrangle1:24000
1980 USGS Oak Grove quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Tuscaloosa quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

166 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 166 fires within 5 miles of Toadvine between 1994 and 2019, burning about 1,959 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 61 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	61
Debris and open burning	58
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	30
Recreation and ceremony	5
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Natural	3
Smoking	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Fireworks	1
Other causes	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
9 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	1686 OLD COOK FORD ROAD, AL
8 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1999	Natural	8.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1999	Natural	10 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1995	Debris and open burning	23 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson 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
Vines Mill	0.6 miles	20
Gilmore	1.3 miles	21
Oak Grove	3.1 miles	20
Alliance	3.7 miles	21
Ezra	3.8 miles	20
Hopkins	4.2 miles	20
Rock Creek	4.3 miles	20
Black Creek	4.4 miles	22

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 Q122538885

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 162131. 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.