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Alice, Alabama

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Altoona census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35956. The Survey maps it on the Boaz quadrangle.

Alice within Etowah County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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

85 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 85 fires within 5 miles of Alice between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,311 acres in total. None started naturally. 49 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/incendiarism49
Debris and open burning23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Recreation and ceremony3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
9 September 1998Arson/incendiarism35 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1998Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1997Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1998Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160928-10
25 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160925-2
23 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160923-4
21 September 2005Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Etowah County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Alice: 7 prospects, 3 occurrences, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Manganese. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bynum-Mccright DepositManganesePast Producer1917
J H Vanzandt ProspectIronProspect
Unnamed ProspectIronProspect
Unnamed ProspectIronProspect
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronProspect
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronProspect
Unnamed ProspectIronProspect
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence

Every working recorded in Etowah 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
Clayborn1.9 miles22
Aurora2.7 miles19
Union2.9 miles23
Greer (historical)3.1 miles23
Mays3.6 miles19
Doolans3.9 miles23
Redbud4.4 miles22
Shady Grove4.5 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 149015. 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.