Vida Junction, Alabama

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Billingsley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36067. The Survey maps it on the Vida quadrangle.

Vida Junction within Autauga County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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.

1891 USGS Clanton quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1953 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Billingsley quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1975 USGS Billingsley SW quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Clanton quadrangle1:100000
1987 USGS Clanton quadrangle1:100000
1987 USGS Vida quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

186 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 186 fires within 5 miles of Vida Junction between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,192 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 21 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	85
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	36
Arson/incendiarism	21
Recreation and ceremony	17
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Natural	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Smoking	3

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
29 September 2016	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160929-14
28 September 2016	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160928-6
27 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	815
26 September 1999	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 1997	Debris and open burning	12 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	1931 BARRETT HILL LANE, AL
19 September 1997	Debris and open burning	3.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
8 August 2008	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	1330 CO RD 112, AL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Autauga 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
Spur (historical)	0.9 miles	18
Hillside (historical)	1.9 miles	18
Joffre	2.4 miles	18
Vida	2.5 miles	18
Haynes	3.6 miles	17
Independence	3.7 miles	18
Evergreen	4.3 miles	17
Old Kingston	4.3 miles	18

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 Q122592656

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 157199. 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.