Valley Whispers, Alabama

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Montgomery census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36116. The Survey maps it on the Montgomery South quadrangle.

Valley Whispers within Montgomery County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 21 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.

1927 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:48000
1930 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1953 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS Montgomery South quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1975 USGS Montgomery South quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

24 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Valley Whispers between 1995 and 2019, burning about 82 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Smoking	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
17 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190917-2
4 August 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	OLD POND RD, AL
30 August 2000	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
24 August 1995	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
18 August 2000	Debris and open burning	34 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
26 June 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	BRENTWOOD, AL
23 June 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	ECR-20150623-001
16 June 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	42 SNOWDEN CHAMBERS, AL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montgomery 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
Montwood Estates	0.3 miles	13
Woodley East Estates	0.3 miles	21
Spring Valley	0.5 miles	21
Woodley Park	0.5 miles	21
Woodley Meadows	0.6 miles	13
Virginia Estates	0.7 miles	13
Bellemeade	0.8 miles	21
Monterey Park	0.8 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.

Wikidata item Q122548647

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 142923. 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.