Trickem, Alabama

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Benton-Collirene census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36785. The Survey maps it on the White Hall quadrangle. It stands 210 feet above sea level.

Trickem within Lowndes County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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 Montgomery quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Autaugaville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1957 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
1975 USGS Autaugaville SW quadrangle1:24000
1982 USGS White Hall quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

99 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 99 fires within 5 miles of Trickem between 1994 and 2019, burning about 713 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 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	39
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Recreation and ceremony	12
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Arson/incendiarism	9
Smoking	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Other causes	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 2010	Debris and open burning	38 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	43 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2019	Debris and open burning	2.3 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190924-19
23 September 1999	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 1995	Smoking	9.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	1.3 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 1999	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lowndes 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
Petronia	2.3 miles	12
Hicks Hill	2.4 miles	9
Edsons	3.4 miles	12
White Hall	4.1 miles	12
Benton	4.4 miles	12
Lowndesboro	7.2 miles	13
Gordonsville	7.7 miles	9
Saint Clair	7.7 miles	13

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 Trickem	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18354434	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 155278. 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.