West Alabama, New York

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1984. It stands in Alabama town. It lies in ZIP code area 14105. The Survey maps it on the Medina quadrangle.

West Alabama within Genesee County

Then and now

1897 to 1984

The same ground, surveyed 87 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of West Alabama, surveyed 1984

Topographic sheet of West Alabama, surveyed 1897

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

1897 USGS Medina quadrangle1:62500, 7 printings
1949 USGS Medina quadrangle1:24000
1950 USGS Medina quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1951 USGS Medina quadrangle1:24000
1952 USGS Toronto quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Toronto quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Toronto quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Lockport quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

68 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of West Alabama between 1995 and 2019, burning about 52 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 6 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	35
Debris and open burning	14
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Arson/incendiarism	6
Natural	4
Smoking	2

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
4 September 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
30 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
3 September 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
21 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
18 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
9 August 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
7 August 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
4 August 2007	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Genesee 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
Alabama	4.1 miles	19
Basom	5.4 miles	19
Wheatville	6.5 miles	17
South Alabama	7.4 miles	17
Indian Falls	7.7 miles	19
Pembroke	9.0 miles	17
Brick House Corners	9.6 miles	17
Five Corners	9.6 miles	17

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 Q122591613

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 973218. 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.