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Bama Park, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Dadeville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36853. It stands on Copper Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ponders quadrangle.

Bama Park within Tallapoosa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

100 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 100 fires within 5 miles of Bama Park between 1994 and 2020, burning about 786 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 24 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 burning37
Arson/incendiarism24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Recreation and ceremony7
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Fireworks1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
23 September 1999Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2019Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190921-3
18 September 2017Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20170918-1
13 September 1997Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2019Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190912-8
1 September 1997Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2000Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tallapoosa 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 Bama Park: 6 past producers, 4 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Mica. 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
Thomas MineMicaPast Producer
Blue Hill and Gregory Hill MinesGoldPast ProducerVein
Dent Hill ProspectGoldOccurrenceGold
Devils Backbone DistrictGoldProducer1835
Farrow Hill Devil's BackboneGoldPast ProducerVein
Farrow Hill ProspectGoldOccurrenceGold
Gregory Hill Lode and PlacerGoldPast ProducerVein
Long Branch ProspectGoldOccurrence1842, 1852
Mass ProspectGoldOccurrenceGold
Owl Hollow PlacerGoldPast Producer1842, 1852

Every working recorded in Tallapoosa 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
Union1.2 miles11
Barnesville2.0 miles11
Still Waters3.1 miles11
Walnut Hill3.5 miles11
Benson (historical)3.6 miles11
Blue Creek3.7 miles11
Cherokee Bluffs3.7 miles11
Ponders4.1 miles11

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 Q122595909The 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 137369. 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.