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Cedar Cove, Alabama

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Coaling-Vance census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35453. It stands on Toxeys Spring Branch. The Survey maps it on the Coaling quadrangle.

Cedar Cove within Tuscaloosa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

94 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 94 fires within 5 miles of Cedar Cove between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,370 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 44 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
Arson/incendiarism44
Debris and open burning30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Recreation and ceremony3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Smoking1
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
4 September 2000Arson/incendiarism10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2000Arson/incendiarism26 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 2016Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160914-7
11 September 1995Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
31 August 1999Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
14 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 July 2019Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190706-2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tuscaloosa County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Cedar Cove: 10 unknowns, 4 occurrences, 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Calcium, Aluminum, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, Free. 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
Big Sandy AreaIron, Calcium, Aluminum, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, FreePast Producer1900, 1903
Big Sandy No. 1 MineIronPast Producer
Bucksville Area ProspectIronOccurrence
Gulf States Paper Corp ProspectIronOccurrence
PinckardIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown

Every working recorded in Tuscaloosa County

Storms near this place

2 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cedar Cove in 2 storm reports between 2012 and 2014: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2014Thunderstorm WindCedar Cove-Several pine trees were uprooted along Covered Bridge Road.
August 2012HailCedar Cove-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Tuscaloosa 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
Coaling1.5 miles19
Dudley1.5 miles19
Grimes3.7 miles19
Vance4.7 miles19
Nichol Hills5.4 miles19
Brookwood5.6 miles21
Eastern Hills5.6 miles19
Hazelhurst5.8 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 158806. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.