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Cedar Grove, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Andalusia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36421. It stands on Tervin Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Opp West quadrangle.

Cedar Grove within Covington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

65 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Cedar Grove between 1994 and 2019, burning about 398 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 11 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 burning22
Equipment and vehicle use14
Arson/incendiarism11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Recreation and ceremony6
Natural3
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
29 September 2001Equipment and vehicle use4.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190923-8
21 September 1997Arson/incendiarism4.2 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190920-12
28 August 2000Natural8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 August 2007Naturalunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 August 2007Equipment and vehicle use8.9 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Covington County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 45 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 45 workings within 5 miles of Cedar Grove: 29 unknowns, 16 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown

Every working recorded in Covington 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
Eoda1.7 miles8
Wiggins2.5 miles8
Harmony2.5 miles8
Opine2.8 miles8
Antioch3.7 miles8
Sanford4.9 miles8
Babbie5.0 miles8
Straughn5.4 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 115774. 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.