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Camelot Plateau, Alabama

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1984. It lies in ZIP code area 35128. The Survey maps it on the Riverside quadrangle.

Camelot Plateau within Talladega County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 24 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

396 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 396 fires within 5 miles of Camelot Plateau between 1994 and 2020, burning about 4,721 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 127 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 burning170
Arson/incendiarism127
Recreation and ceremony50
Missing data/not specified/undetermined33
Smoking5
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Equipment and vehicle use5
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
9 September 2002Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2005Arson/incendiarism23 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1998Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2010Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2006Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Talladega County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Camelot Plateau: 5 unknowns, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
Norman MountainIronUnknown
T.I. & S. Co. MineIronPast ProducerResidual
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown

Every working recorded in Talladega 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
River Terrace Estates0.1 miles24
Davis Acres0.3 miles24
Stemley1.0 miles24
Fishtrap1.7 miles21
Kyser Leonard Lakefront Estates1.7 miles21
Wendy Wood1.9 miles24
Rocky Ridge2.6 miles21
Windsong Island3.2 miles24

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 Q122550985The 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 144742. 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.