Wilkes Park, Alabama

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Florence census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35633. The Survey maps it on the Blackburn quadrangle.

Wilkes Park within Lauderdale County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

1914 USGS Muscle Shoals quadrangle1:48000
1916 USGS Muscle Shoals quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1936 USGS Blackburn quadrangle1:24000
1952 USGS Blackburn quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Tuscumbia quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

179 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 179 fires within 5 miles of Wilkes Park between 1994 and 2019, burning about 494 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 62 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	68
Arson/incendiarism	62
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Misuse of fire by a minor	9
Smoking	9
Recreation and ceremony	3
Fireworks	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
6 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1999	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190929-11
29 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	115 COUNTY ROAD 249, AL
25 September 2008	Smoking	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	COUNTY ROAD 200, AL
25 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2015	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	NOR-20150922-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lauderdale 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
Cloverdale Heights	0.6 miles	19
Oak Hill	0.7 miles	17
Suncrest	0.8 miles	17
Underwood	0.8 miles	19
Twin Oaks	0.9 miles	17
New Castle Estates	0.9 miles	19
Terrace View	1.0 miles	17
Underwood Estates	1.1 miles	19

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 Q122540244

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 142260. 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.