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Center West, Alabama

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Folsom census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36258. It stands on Ketchepedrakee Creek. The Survey maps it on the Delta quadrangle.

Center West within Randolph County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

127 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 127 fires within 5 miles of Center West between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,130 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 31 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 burning60
Arson/incendiarism31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Recreation and ceremony11
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
30 September 2007Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20180922-5
18 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190918-18
16 September 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190913-12
13 September 2019Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190913-13

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Randolph County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 50 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 50 workings within 5 miles of Center West: 21 prospects, 19 past producers, 8 occurrences, 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mica, Manganese, Talc-Soapstone, 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
Ironaton Brown Ore MineIron, ManganesePast Producer1944
Unnamed ProspectGraphiteUnknown
Van Smith Soapstone ProspectTalc-SoapstoneOccurrenceTalc
G.C. Miller ProspectManganeseOccurrence1944
J Van Smith ProspectManganeseOccurrence
Thos. Peoples ProspectManganeseOccurrence1944
Van Smith Manganese ProspectManganeseOccurrencePyrolusite
Alexandria MineMicaPast Producer
Arnold ProspectMicaProspect
Arnott No 2 ProspectMicaProspect

Every working recorded in Randolph 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
Corinth2.4 miles13
Wildwood2.8 miles13
Fuller Crossroad3.7 miles13
Foster Crossroad4.3 miles13
Christiana4.4 miles14
Folsom4.5 miles13
Liberty5.0 miles12
Pine Tuckey5.4 miles13

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 Q122572306The 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 162127. 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.