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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 23 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1889 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:125000
- 1892 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:125000
- 1895 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1907 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1951 USGS Creel quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1953 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
- 1975 USGS Creel quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Birmingham North quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
206 since 1994Regional 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 burning | 77 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 75 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 29 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 10 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Other causes | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2010 | Smoking | 2.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 September 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 September 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 September 1995 | Debris and open burning | 50 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 September 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20190928-9 |
| 26 September 2019 | Natural | 12 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20190926-10 |
| 21 September 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 20 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Corner | 0.7 miles | 23 | |
| Partridge Crossroads | 2.3 miles | 23 | |
| Bagley Meadows | 4.3 miles | 23 | |
| Beltona | 4.4 miles | 26 | |
| Cane Creek | 4.5 miles | 26 | |
| Bagley | 4.6 miles | 21 | |
| Petes Crossroads | 4.8 miles | 21 | |
| Parker Hudson Estates | 5.3 miles | 26 |
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 Q122597669 | 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 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.









