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Carleton Point, Alabama

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Wilsonville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35186. It stands on Dry Branch. The Survey maps it on the Wilsonville quadrangle.

Carleton Point within Shelby County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 25 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

73 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 73 fires within 5 miles of Carleton Point between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,190 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 19 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 burning24
Arson/incendiarism19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Recreation and ceremony7
Equipment and vehicle use6
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Natural1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
23 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use80 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190919-24
18 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190918-11
17 September 1999Arson/incendiarism35 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use10 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190916-16
10 September 1998Arson/incendiarism50 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
26 August 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission830
23 August 2000Debris and open burning15 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

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Carleton Point: 5 unknowns, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Barium-Barite. 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
P. HowlandBarium-BaritePast ProducerResidual
Petrie Howland MineBarium-BaritePast Producer
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
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
Homestead0.5 miles25
Indian Shoals0.7 miles25
Valentine1.3 miles25
Wilsonville2.0 miles25
Paradise Point Estates3.6 miles25
Fourmile5.0 miles16
Kingdom Crossroads5.1 miles16
Shelby Shores5.4 miles25

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 Q122570209The 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 1805566. 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.