Whitson, Alabama

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Windham Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35546. It stands on Little Yellow Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wiley quadrangle.

Whitson within Tuscaloosa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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.

1893 USGS Jasper quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1949 USGS Wiley quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1951 USGS Wiley quadrangle1:24000
1953 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Jasper quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

95 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 95 fires within 5 miles of Whitson between 1994 and 2019, burning about 1,381 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 40 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
Arson/incendiarism	40
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	29
Debris and open burning	17
Natural	4
Recreation and ceremony	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
23 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	2.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	NWR-20130917-003
17 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	50 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tuscaloosa 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
Wiley	3.8 miles	17
Three Forks	4.1 miles	19
Sandtown	4.7 miles	17
Windham Springs	7.2 miles	20
Gorgas	11.4 miles	12
Skelton Bend Estates	12.3 miles	18
Bull City	13.2 miles	23
New Lexington	13.2 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 157256. 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.