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Candlewood Lakes, Alabama

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Clay census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35173. It lies near Cedar Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Argo quadrangle.

Candlewood Lakes within Jefferson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

107 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 107 fires within 5 miles of Candlewood Lakes between 1994 and 2019, burning about 1,056 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 38 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 burning43
Arson/incendiarism38
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Recreation and ceremony6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Natural1
Smoking1

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 1995Debris and open burning20 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1995Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1998Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 August 1995Debris and open burning5.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 August 1995Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
14 August 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
1 August 1995Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 27 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 27 workings within 5 miles of Candlewood Lakes: 23 occurrences, 2 unknowns, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, 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
Industrial Sand Co. QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Trussville PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
D P Anderson ProspectIronOccurrence
J O Norris ProspectIronOccurrence
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence

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
Clay1.4 miles27
Vanns1.5 miles27
Eagle Ridge1.5 miles27
Confederate Estates1.9 miles27
Near Acres Estates1.9 miles27
Countryside Estates2.0 miles27
Cotton Ridge2.2 miles27
Rolling Hills2.3 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 Q122568684The 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 1700557. 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.