Bosworth, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Milltown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36276. The Survey maps it on the Wadley South quadrangle.

Bosworth within Chambers 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.

1891 USGS Ashland quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1953 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Wadley South quadrangle1:24000
1978 USGS La Grange quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

79 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 79 fires within 5 miles of Bosworth between 1994 and 2020, burning about 796 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 19 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 burning	31
Arson/incendiarism	19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Natural	2
Smoking	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Other causes	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
8 September 1997	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1998	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	12 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160929-12
29 September 2001	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2019	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190920-8
3 August 2002	Arson/incendiarism	12 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
22 August 2014	Power generation/transmission/distribution	21 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	ECR-20140822-001
30 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	ECR-20120730-003

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chambers County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Bosworth: 2 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mica, Gold, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Carleton Mine	Mica	Past Producer
Milltown Pluton	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer	Plagioclase, Quartz
W.D. Mitchell Property No. 2	Gold	Occurrence	Gold

Every working recorded in Chambers 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Shiloh	1.3 miles	11
Tiller Crossroads	2.4 miles	10
Union Hill	2.5 miles	11
Foster Crossroads	3.1 miles	10
Trammel Crossroads	3.8 miles	10
Milltown	4.6 miles	11
Fordyce	5.2 miles	10
Penton	5.2 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156100. 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.