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Chinnabee, Alabama

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Talladega census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36268. It lies near Horse Creek Valley. The Survey maps it on the Ironaton quadrangle. It stands 594 feet above sea level.

Chinnabee within Talladega County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

273 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 273 fires within 5 miles of Chinnabee between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,681 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 113 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/incendiarism113
Debris and open burning88
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Recreation and ceremony21
Equipment and vehicle use11
Natural8
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
9 September 2002Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2011Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionIRONATON ROAD, AL
24 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20180924-3
20 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 1997Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2000Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Talladega County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Chinnabee: 6 past producers, 4 unknowns. 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
Camp Ore BedsIronPast ProducerResidual
Jone's Limonite BanksIronPast ProducerResidual
Uncertain, Ironaton DistrictIronPast ProducerResidual
Uncertain, Ironaton DistrictIronPast ProducerResidual
Uncertain, Ironton DistrictIronPast ProducerResidual
Uncertain, Tronaton DistrictIronPast ProducerResidual
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown

Every working recorded in Talladega 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
McElderry1.6 miles14
Ironaton2.5 miles14
Bethlehem2.8 miles21
Curry3.1 miles22
Woolfolk3.6 miles14
Hopeful3.6 miles14
Hall Grove3.9 miles21
Stockdale4.2 miles22

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.

Wikipedia article on ChinnabeeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q104879749The 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 159395. 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.