Bucksville, Alabama

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

Surveyed buildings and structures 3 records

• Iron & Steel Museum of Alabama, 12632 Confederate Pkwy., Bucksvillefederal building survey, 3 photographs
• Tannehill Furnace (Ruins), Mud Creek vicinity, Bucksvillefederal building survey, 7 photographs
• Tannehill Furnace, 12632 Confederate Parkway, Tannehill Historical State Park, Bucksvillefederal building survey, 14 photographs

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.

• 1899 USGS Brookwood quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
• 1927 USGS Adger quadrangle1:48000
• 1932 USGS Yolande quadrangle1:62500
• 1935 USGS Yolande quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1953 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1956 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
• 1975 USGS Yolande SE quadrangle1:24000
• 1980 USGS Mc Calla quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1984 USGS Tuscaloosa quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 188 fires within 5 miles of Bucksville between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,204 acres in total. None started naturally. 78 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Kimbrell
• Cloester Valley
• Confederate Hill Estates
• Tannehill
• Caffee Junction
• Chambers

Every fire recorded in Tuscaloosa County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 40 workings within 5 miles of Bucksville: 19 occurrences, 14 past producers, 6 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese, Iron, Manganese. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Tuscaloosa County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bucksville in 5 storm reports between 2003 and 2012: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

Every storm recorded in Tuscaloosa County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 157903. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.