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Virginia Estates, Alabama

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Montgomery census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36116. The Survey maps it on the Barachias quadrangle.

Virginia Estates within Montgomery County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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.

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 Virginia Estates between 1995 and 2019, burning about 79 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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 burning12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
17 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190917-2
4 August 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionOLD POND RD, AL
30 August 2000Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 August 1995Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 August 2000Debris and open burning34 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
26 June 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionBRENTWOOD, AL
23 June 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionECR-20150623-001
23 May 2011Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionBOXWOOD DRIVE , 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Warrenton Estates0.2 miles13
Monterey Park0.4 miles13
Montwood Estates0.5 miles13
Woodley East Estates0.6 miles21
Valley Whispers0.7 miles21
Hunters Point0.7 miles13
Woodley Meadows0.7 miles13
Woodley Park0.7 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 142931. 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.