Wilson, 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 35634. The Survey maps it on the Blackburn quadrangle.

Wilson 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

Photographs

8 of 12 photographs shown, 1942

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.

Wilson Dam, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Workers checking out at end of shift at a chemical engineering plant
Rothstein, Arthur, 1942. Library of Congress

Wilson Dam, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Spreading insecticide for malaria control
Rothstein, Arthur, 1942. Library of Congress

Wilson Dam, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Excursion steamer Gordon C. Green of Cincinnati approaching Wilson Dam, Alabama
Rothstein, Arthur, 1942. Library of Congress

Tennessee Valley Authority. Pole line carrying 110-volt current generated at TVA's hydroelectric plant at Wilson Dam. Located near Sheffield, Alabama, 260 miles above the mouth of the Tennessee River, the dam has an authorized power installation of 288,000 kilowatts, which can be increased to a possible ultimate of 444,000 kilowatts. The reservoir at the dam adds 377,000 acre-feet of water to controlled storage on the Tennessee River system
Palmer, Alfred T., photographer, 1942. Library of Congress

Wilson Dam, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Tapping the slag at a phosphorus furnace at a chemical plant
Rothstein, Arthur, 1942. Library of Congress

Tennessee Valley Authority. Wilson Dam hydroelectric plant construction. A partly completed stator for one of the generator units at a new addition to the TVA's hydroelectric plant at Wilson Dam. Located near Sheffield, Alabama, 260 miles above the mouth of the Tennessee River, the dam has an authorized power installation of 288,000 kilowatts, which can be increased to a possible ultimate of 444,000 kilowatts. The reservoir at the dam adds 377,000 acre-feet of water to controlled storage on the Tennessee River system
Palmer, Alfred T., photographer, 1942. Library of Congress

Wilson Dam, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Workers at safety meeting
Rothstein, Arthur, 1942. Library of Congress

Wilson Dam, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)). Testing insecticide for malaria-carrying mosquito at malaria control laboratory
Rothstein, Arthur, 1942. Library of Congress

Every photograph of Lauderdale County

Fires near this place

245 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 245 fires within 5 miles of Wilson between 1996 and 2019, burning about 939 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 105 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	105
Debris and open burning	91
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Smoking	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Recreation and ceremony	3
Natural	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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 1999	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	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 2001	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2008	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20800COUNTY ROAD 8, AL
25 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

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
Keys Chapel (historical)	1.0 miles	17
Blackburn	1.3 miles	17
Webster (historical)	1.9 miles	17
Zip City	1.9 miles	17
Sharps Mill	2.3 miles	17
Stoney Point (historical)	2.4 miles	17
Jacksonburg	2.5 miles	17
Terrace View	2.6 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 142262. 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.