Canaan, Alabama

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 12 of 13 shown

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• William Bowen Lustron Houselisted 2000 · 0.2 miles away
• E. H. Darby Lustron Houselisted 2000 · 0.3 miles away
• Rosenbaum Houselisted 1978 · 0.5 miles away
• Locust Street Historic Districtlisted 2002 · 0.6 miles away
• George Coulter Houselisted 1982 · 0.8 miles away
• Rogers Department Storelisted 1998 · 0.9 miles away
• Southall Drugslisted 1980 · 0.9 miles away
• Downtown Florence Historic Districtlisted 1995 · 0.9 miles away
• Karsner-Carroll Houselisted 1970 · 0.9 miles away
• Sannoner Historic Districtlisted 1976 · 0.9 miles away
• Downtown Florence Historic District (Boundary Increase)listed 2001 · 0.9 miles away
• Courtviewlisted 1974 · 1.0 miles away

Every listing in Lauderdale County

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.

• 1914 USGS Muscle Shoals quadrangle1:48000
• 1916 USGS Muscle Shoals quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1936 USGS Florence quadrangle1:24000
• 1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1957 USGS Florence quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
• 1971 USGS Florence quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1986 USGS Tuscumbia quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Canaan (historical) between 1994 and 2019, burning about 317 acres in total. None started naturally. 26 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Cypress Heights
• Florence
• Briarcliff
• Country Club Acres
• Cypress Crest
• Cypress Forest

Every fire recorded in Lauderdale County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Canaan (historical): 1 producer, 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica, Aluminum. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Lauderdale County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 145098. 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.