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Burns Park, Alabama

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Gadsden census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35903. The Survey maps it on the Glencoe quadrangle.

Burns Park within Etowah County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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

56 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Burns Park between 1994 and 2019, burning about 1,682 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 32 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/incendiarism32
Debris and open burning13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Recreation and ceremony4
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Natural1

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
20 September 1997Recreation and ceremony25 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2000Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1998Arson/incendiarism30 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 1998Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 August 2011Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionGLENN ST., AL
30 July 1995Debris and open burning25 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 June 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 June 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNER-20130630-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Etowah County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 30 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 30 workings within 5 miles of Burns Park: 18 past producers, 7 occurrences, 3 unknowns, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Manganese, Barium-Barite, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Republic Steel Corp. PlantSulfurPast Producer
Anniston, Fort Payne, Ashville, Ala.Kaolin, AluminumOccurrenceBauxite, Kaolin
Giles Myric & A. CampbellBarium-BaritePast ProducerResidual
John T Hagen ProspectBarium-BariteOccurrence
Ne Alabama Bauxite-KaolinKaolin, AluminumOccurrenceBauxite
Open PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerChert
Whorton Bend PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Grady NortonManganesePast Producer1917
Norton DepositManganesePast ProducerSurface
Pryor Mine/Norton Deposit/Davis GapIron, ManganesePast ProducerHematite

Every working recorded in Etowah 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
Masingale (historical)1.4 miles18
East Gadsden1.8 miles18
Glencoe1.9 miles18
Nisbit (historical)2.2 miles18
Noojinsville2.3 miles18
Ewing2.5 miles18
Goodyear2.8 miles18
Keysburg3.0 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 115257. 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.