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Cedar Grove, Alabama

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Stevenson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35772. It lies near Washington Cove. The Survey maps it on the Stevenson quadrangle.

Cedar Grove within Jackson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 22 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

28 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Cedar Grove between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,198 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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 burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Arson/incendiarism4
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160923-10
18 September 1998Smoking1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1998Smoking1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 July 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20180717-1
15 June 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 April 2003Debris and open burning15 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionCO. RD. 54, AL
24 March 2007Debris and open burning1,010 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSTEVENSON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Cedar Grove: 1 past producer, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Manganese. 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
Pace ProspectIron, ManganeseProspect
Childers MineIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this place

1 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cedar Grove in 1 storm report in 2020: 1 flood. 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
February 2020FloodCedar Grove-EMA reports approximately 6 inches of standing water covering County Road 45 between Fackler and Stevenson.

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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
Hymer (historical)1.5 miles22
Card Switch2.9 miles22
Stevenson3.0 miles22
Rash3.0 miles21
Pinder Hill3.2 miles22
Fackler3.4 miles21
Harris3.8 miles23
Wannville3.9 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 151723. 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.