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Boaz Corner, Alabama

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Childersburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35044. It stands on Weewoka Creek. The Survey maps it on the Childersburg quadrangle.

Boaz Corner within Talladega County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

314 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 314 fires within 5 miles of Boaz Corner between 1994 and 2020, burning about 5,632 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 90 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 burning132
Arson/incendiarism90
Missing data/not specified/undetermined42
Recreation and ceremony23
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Equipment and vehicle use8
Natural6
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Fireworks1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1

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
6 September 2002Debris and open burning10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190905-14
30 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2007Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2007Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190927-6
25 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2007Debris and open burning4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Talladega County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 33 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 33 workings within 5 miles of Boaz Corner: 21 unknowns, 6 past producers, 3 occurrences, 2 prospects. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Manganese, Aluminum, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Childersburg QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Kymulga ProspectAluminumOccurrence
Butler Estate MineIron, ManganesePast Producer
Wesson Manganese MineManganeseProspect1918
Wesson Mn Mine Big Grunt MineManganesePast ProducerResidual
ChildsburgIronUnknown
Cliett ProspectIronProspect
Heacock Mountain ProspectIronOccurrence
No Name Riser MinesIronPast ProducerResidual
Riser Mountain ProspectIronOccurrence

Every working recorded in Talladega 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
Bon Air1.9 miles19
Coosa Court2.4 miles19
Forest Hills2.4 miles19
Minor Terrace2.5 miles19
Pleasant Hill2.5 miles23
Center Hill2.8 miles23
Zubers2.9 miles23
Childersburg2.9 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.

Wikidata item Q122598114The 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 156088. 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.