Williams, Alabama

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Columbia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36319. It stands on Hurricane Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sigma quadrangle.

Williams within Houston County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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 Dothan quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Sigma quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:100000

Photographs

1 photograph,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Britt-Williams-Borders House, Greenwood Street, Gordon, Houston County, AL
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

50 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Williams between 1992 and 2020, burning about 420 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 4 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	24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Arson/incendiarism	4
Recreation and ceremony	4
Natural	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
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
3 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2019	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190923-15
18 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-EARLY-016
5 July 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-EARLY-001
30 July 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2013-EARLY-001
18 July 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
15 July 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	6.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 June 2019	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190605-1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Houston County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Williams: 9 occurrences, 7 unknowns, 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Chattahoochee Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Columbia Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Phattahoochee Sand Pitmec	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown

Every working recorded in Houston 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
Sigma	2.4 miles	7
Columbia	2.9 miles	9
Pleasant Plains	3.5 miles	7
Pearce	4.6 miles	7
Seminole Heights	6.0 miles	7
Barber	6.2 miles	7
Webb	6.6 miles	7
Enon	8.6 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 157263. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.