BlockWalden Quarters, Alabama
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1947 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Forkland-Tishabee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35443. It sits by Stephens Bluff. The Survey maps it on the Mason Bend quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1947 USGS Mason Bend quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Mason Bend quadrangle1:24000
- 1953 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Demopolis quadrangle1:100000
- 1990 USGS Demopolis quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
36 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Walden Quarters between 1995 and 2017, burning about 365 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 6 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 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Smoking | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 1997 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 10 September 1995 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 31 August 1995 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 22 August 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 17 August 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
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 Q122593612 | 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 157209. 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.