Avondale, Alabama

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 12 of 13 shown

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• Number One Furnace, Sloss Blast Furnace SiteNational Historic Landmark · listed 1972 · 0.7 miles away
• Fire Station No. 10listed 1990 · 0.3 miles away
• Avondale Park Historic Districtlisted 1998 · 0.4 miles away
• Fire Station No. 22listed 1990 · 0.7 miles away
• Forest Parklisted 1980 · 0.8 miles away
• Manchester Terracelisted 1989 · 0.9 miles away
• Exclusive Furniture Shoplisted 1984 · 0.9 miles away
• Continental Gin Companylisted 1980 · 0.9 miles away
• Lakeview Schoollisted 1977 · 1.0 miles away
• North Lakeview Industrial Districtlisted 2016 · 0.7 miles away
• Chestnut Hill Historic Districtlisted 1987 · 0.8 miles away
• Southside Historic Districtlisted 2005 · 0.9 miles away

Every listing in Jefferson County

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.

• 1889 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:125000
• 1892 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:125000
• 1895 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
• 1904 USGS Birmingham Coal District quadrangle1:62500
• 1906 USGS Birmingham Coal District quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1906 USGS Birmingham Special quadrangle1:62500
• 1907 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
• 1953 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1956 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Birmingham North quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
• 1975 USGS Birmingham North quadrangle1:24000
• 1984 USGS Birmingham North quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1997 USGS Birmingham North quadrangle1:24000

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.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Avondale between 1993 and 2015, burning about 646 acres in total. None started naturally. 15 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Kingston
• Highland Residence Park
• Altamont Park
• Avon Park
• Bentley Hills
• Birmingham

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Avondale: 9 past producers, 4 unknowns, 3 plants, 3 producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Vermiculite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Avondale in 5 storm reports between 2011 and 2017: 4 flash flood, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

Every storm recorded in Jefferson County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 113310. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.