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Avery, Alabama

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Wills Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35954. It lies near Bob Walden Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Gadsden West quadrangle.

Avery within Etowah County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 22 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

171 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 171 fires within 5 miles of Avery between 1997 and 2020, burning about 2,313 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 88 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/incendiarism88
Debris and open burning58
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use3
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1

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 1998Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2010Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2010Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1998Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined46 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1999Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 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

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Avery: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
Crudup MineIronPast ProducerHematite
Leed Gap AreaIronPast ProducerHematite
Not KnownIronPast ProducerHematite
W.F.Stowers MineIronPast Producer

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
Pleasant Hill0.1 miles22
Crudup1.5 miles22
Cox Gap2.0 miles22
Haworth (historical)2.1 miles22
Leath Gap (historical)2.2 miles22
Reece City2.5 miles22
Fairview2.6 miles18
Cave Springs2.6 miles22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 140452. 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.