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Willow Grove Estates, Alabama

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Warrior census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35180. The Survey maps it on the Creel quadrangle.

Willow Grove Estates within Jefferson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 23 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.

Fires near this place

206 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 206 fires within 5 miles of Willow Grove Estates between 1994 and 2019, burning about 2,089 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 75 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 burning77
Arson/incendiarism75
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Recreation and ceremony10
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Other causes2
Natural2
Fireworks1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 2010Smoking2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2007Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1995Debris and open burning50 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2000Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190928-9
26 September 2019Natural12 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190926-10
21 September 2005Arson/incendiarism20 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Corner0.7 miles23
Partridge Crossroads2.3 miles23
Bagley Meadows4.3 miles23
Beltona4.4 miles26
Cane Creek4.5 miles26
Bagley4.6 miles21
Petes Crossroads4.8 miles21
Parker Hudson Estates5.3 miles26

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 Q122597669The 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 1700549. 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.