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Cahaba River Estates, Alabama

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Alabaster-Helena census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35244. It stands on Patton Creek. The Survey maps it on the Helena quadrangle.

Cahaba River Estates within Shelby County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 27 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

57 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Cahaba River Estates between 1994 and 2019, burning about 678 acres in total. None started naturally. 21 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 burning21
Arson/incendiarism21
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Recreation and ceremony4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
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
29 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2000Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 1995Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 August 1999Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 August 2000Arson/incendiarism40 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
2 August 1999Railroad operations and maintenance11 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 August 1999Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shelby County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Cahaba River Estates: 4 unknowns, 3 producers, 2 past producers, 2 prospects. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Clay, Bloating Material, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Lacon Plant No. 3 PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
ParkwoodBloating MaterialProducerSedimentary
Jef 6 Clay ProspectClayProspect
Parkwood MineClayProducer
Helena, Ne OfIronPast ProducerResidual
Johnson ProspectIronProspect
Pyne MineIronPast Producer
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown

Every working recorded in Shelby 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
Acton1.0 miles27
Indian Lake Estates1.6 miles27
Wooddale1.7 miles27
Royal Oaks1.8 miles27
Indian Hills2.1 miles27
Chandalar South2.7 miles27
Valley Station2.8 miles27
Southlake2.9 miles27

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 Q122552885The 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 115373. 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.