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Buttston, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Dadeville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36853. It stands on County Line Creek. The Survey maps it on the Buttston quadrangle.

Buttston within Tallapoosa 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.

Fires near this place

53 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Buttston between 1994 and 2020, burning about 409 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 20 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 burning20
Arson/incendiarism20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Recreation and ceremony3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural2
Smoking1
Other causes1

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 1998Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
2 August 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
12 August 2002Debris and open burning3.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
10 August 2020Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20200810-4
1 August 1995Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 July 2000Natural24 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
1 July 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 June 2002Naturalunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tallapoosa County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 29 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 29 workings within 5 miles of Buttston: 13 past producers, 8 occurrences, 7 prospects, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mica, Talc-Soapstone, Gold, Asbestos. 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
Allen Clay ProspectClayProspect
Heard-Dennis ProspectAsbestosProspect
Eagle Creek DistrictGoldPast ProducerVein
Goldville PitsGoldPast ProducerVein
Hammock MineGoldPast Producer1881
Johnson ProspectGoldOccurrence1840, 1845
Morgan PlacerGoldOccurrence1892
Morgan PlacerGoldPast ProducerPlacer
W.D. Mitchell Property No. 2GoldOccurrenceGold
Clem Vines North ProspectTalc-SoapstoneOccurrenceTalc

Every working recorded in Tallapoosa County

Storms near this place

1 since 2026

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Buttston in 1 storm report in 2026: 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2026Thunderstorm WindButtston-Trees were downed at Germany's Ferry bridge.

Every storm recorded in Tallapoosa 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
Hampton1.6 miles10
Oakfuskudshi (historical)1.6 miles11
Persons Bridge (historical)2.5 miles10
Matilda (historical)2.9 miles11
Dudleyville3.0 miles10
Everglade3.7 miles11
Denver3.7 miles10
Niuyaka (historical)3.7 miles11

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 Q122545499The 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 156141. 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.