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Antioch, Alabama

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Centreville-Brent census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35042. It lies near Soap Hill. The Survey maps it on the Randolph quadrangle. It stands 538 feet above sea level.

Antioch within Bibb County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

95 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 95 fires within 5 miles of Antioch between 1994 and 2020, burning about 936 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 17 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 burning40
Arson/incendiarism17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Recreation and ceremony14
Smoking4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural2
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
8 September 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160908-15
7 September 1995Recreation and ceremony31 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1995Recreation and ceremony6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1995Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2008Debris and open burning4.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionCOUNTY ROAD 2-BRIERFIELD, AL
25 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190925-10
24 September 2004Arson/incendiarism16 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bibb County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Antioch: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fluorine-Fluorite. 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
USGS MR-60 Alabama No.8 ProspectFluorine-FluoriteUnknown

Every working recorded in Bibb 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
Trio2.6 miles11
Thomas Mill2.9 miles16
Sixmile4.4 miles19
Vick4.5 miles11
Maud4.6 miles16
Bibb Mill4.7 miles16
Gary Springs5.0 miles11
Pilgrim Rest (historical)5.2 miles19

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.

Wikipedia article on AntiochAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q20657742The 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 162935. 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.