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Cahaba Cliffs, Alabama

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Birmingham census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35242. It stands on Little Cahaba River. The Survey maps it on the Cahaba Heights quadrangle.

Cahaba Cliffs within Jefferson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 22 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

37 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Cahaba Cliffs between 1995 and 2020, burning about 330 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 13 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/incendiarism13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Debris and open burning6
Recreation and ceremony3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
5 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2016Recreation and ceremony6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160929-6
13 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 1999Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
2 August 2006Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
31 July 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 July 1995Natural3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 June 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160608-5

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Cahaba Cliffs: 2 past producers, 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Perlite, Vermiculite. 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
Irondale PlantVermiculitePast Producer
W. R. Grace Irondale PlantPerlitePast Producer
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown

Every working recorded in Jefferson 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
Inverness Point0.7 miles22
Acton0.9 miles22
Westbrook Trace1.3 miles22
Altadena Ridge Estates1.5 miles22
Thornhill1.8 miles26
Hickory Ridge Estates1.9 miles26
Altadena Forest Estates1.9 miles26
Hidden Ridge2.0 miles26

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 Q122539063The 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 1700271. 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.