Underwood, Alabama

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Florence census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35633. It stands on Bailey Branch. The Survey maps it on the Florence quadrangle.

Underwood within Lauderdale County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

1914 USGS Muscle Shoals quadrangle1:48000
1916 USGS Muscle Shoals quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1936 USGS Florence quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Florence quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Florence quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1986 USGS Tuscumbia quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

187 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 187 fires within 5 miles of Underwood between 1995 and 2019, burning about 556 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 63 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	74
Arson/incendiarism	63
Equipment and vehicle use	14
Smoking	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Misuse of fire by a minor	10
Recreation and ceremony	2
Fireworks	1
Natural	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
8 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1999	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190929-11
29 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	115 COUNTY ROAD 249, AL
28 September 2010	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 Lauderdale 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
New Castle Estates	0.1 miles	19
Cloverdale Heights	0.5 miles	19
Underwood Estates	0.7 miles	19
Wilkes Park	0.8 miles	17
Northwood Hills	1.1 miles	19
Petersville	1.2 miles	19
Vestavia Gardens	1.4 miles	19
Oak Hill	1.4 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 128250. 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.