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Cave Spring, Alabama

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Tri-Cities census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35674. The Survey maps it on the Leighton quadrangle.

Cave Spring within Colbert County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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

114 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 114 fires within 5 miles of Cave Spring between 1994 and 2020, burning about 568 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 20 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 burning41
Arson/incendiarism20
Equipment and vehicle use18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Recreation and ceremony7
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
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 useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20160907-6
28 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2000Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20160924-4

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Colbert County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Cave Spring: 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Lister Hill Reduction PlantSilica, AluminumPlant

Every working recorded in Colbert 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
Emco-Listerhill Junction1.2 miles19
Houston Corner1.6 miles18
Hobgood1.9 miles18
Valley Grove2.1 miles19
Detroit Park2.1 miles18
Listerhill2.3 miles18
Jackson Heights2.5 miles18
Mount Pleasant (historical)2.9 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 150844. 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.