Watsonville, Alabama

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Pine Apple census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36726. The Survey maps it on the Nadawah quadrangle.

Watsonville within Wilcox County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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.

1953 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Nadawah quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Monroeville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

54 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Watsonville between 1994 and 2020, burning about 912 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 5 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	22
Debris and open burning	14
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Arson/incendiarism	5
Recreation and ceremony	4
Natural	2

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
6 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190906-4
27 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2007	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1997	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 1997	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
28 August 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	SWR-20140828-002
21 August 2007	Natural	39 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
17 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	168 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190817-3

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wilcox 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
Neenah	3.3 miles	7
Fatama	4.3 miles	7
Caledonia	4.4 miles	7
McWilliams	4.5 miles	7
Rosebud	5.3 miles	7
Oak Hill	5.7 miles	7
Schuster	6.3 miles	7
Rutthven	7.2 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 157223. 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.