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Bay View Estates, Alabama

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Leesburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35959. It lies near Round Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Centre quadrangle.

Bay View Estates within Cherokee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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

182 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 182 fires within 5 miles of Bay View Estates between 1994 and 2020, burning about 2,629 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 104 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/incendiarism104
Debris and open burning37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Equipment and vehicle use7
Recreation and ceremony5
Smoking3
Natural3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Other causes1

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
30 September 2007Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionNER-20120929-001
28 September 2016Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160928-9
26 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1999Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190923-17

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cherokee 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 Bay View Estates: 7 occurrences, 3 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Clay. 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
Che 7 Clay ProspectClayProspect
Little River AreaIronPast ProducerHematite
Round Mountain MineIronPast Producer
Round Mt. MineIronPast ProducerHematite
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence

Every working recorded in Cherokee 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
Blue Pond1.1 miles19
Round Mountain1.4 miles19
Hopewell2.2 miles19
Billy Goat Hill2.3 miles19
Richardson2.6 miles19
Anderson2.7 miles19
Shangrila2.7 miles19
Griffin3.0 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 136837. 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.