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Booker T City, Alabama

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Jacksonville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36265. It stands on Hanes Branch. The Survey maps it on the Jacksonville West quadrangle.

Booker T City within Calhoun County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

180 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 180 fires within 5 miles of Booker T City between 1994 and 2019, burning about 2,383 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 44 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 burning74
Arson/incendiarism44
Recreation and ceremony23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Natural5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking3
Railroad operations and maintenance3

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
7 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1995Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2001Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2010Debris and open burning15 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Calhoun County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 51 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 51 workings within 5 miles of Booker T City: 18 past producers, 15 unknowns, 13 occurrences, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Barium-Barite, Lead, 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
Nesbitt Lake Manganese ProspectManganese, IronOccurrence1980
Old Lead MineLead, Barium-Barite, Zinc, Limestone, GeneralPast Producer1860
QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Tom MooreLead, Barium-BaritePast Producer1916
Cedar Springs ProspectLead, Zinc, Barium-BariteOccurrence
Old Lead MineLead, ZincPast Producer1850
Unnamed ProspectLead, ZincOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectLead, ZincOccurrence
J F Crow ProspectAluminumOccurrence

Every working recorded in Calhoun 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
Betta-Life1.1 miles17
Bonny Brook1.7 miles17
Jacksonville1.8 miles17
Eastwood2.2 miles17
Four Mile2.3 miles17
Leydens Mill2.7 miles17
Whites Gap2.8 miles18
June Bug (historical)2.9 miles17

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 Q122571648The 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 149167. 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.