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Chickasaw, Alabama

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Cherokee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35616. It lies near Dark Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Waterloo quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Chickasaw within Colbert County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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

97 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 97 fires within 5 miles of Chickasaw (historical) between 1992 and 2018, burning about 1,085 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 64 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/incendiarism64
Debris and open burning15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural1
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
8 September 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2007Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2018Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20180903-5
3 September 2007Arson/incendiarism2.7 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2010Arson/incendiarism40 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1998Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Colbert County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Chickasaw (historical): 4 prospects, 2 past producers, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Aluminum, Silica, Kaolin. 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
Bumpass Creek TripoliSilicaOccurrence1962
Doan Hollow Tripoli DepositSilicaOccurrenceTripoli
H ProspectAluminum, KaolinProspect
K ProspectAluminum, KaolinProspect
TripoliSilicaPast ProducerSedimentary
Tva PitAluminum, KaolinPast Producer
I ProspectAluminumProspect
L ProspectAluminumProspect

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
Riverton0.4 miles18
Crows Camp (historical)2.4 miles18
Walker (historical)3.3 miles19
Caryton (historical)4.4 miles19
Lane Springs6.2 miles19
Ingleton (historical)7.6 miles19
Georgetown7.8 miles19
Doubleheads Village (historical)8.0 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 166017. 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.