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Chulavista, Alabama

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Moody census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35125. It lies near Tunnel Hill. The Survey maps it on the Pell City quadrangle.

Chulavista within St. Clair County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 21 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

129 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 129 fires within 5 miles of Chulavista between 1994 and 2019, burning about 1,665 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 30 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 burning61
Arson/incendiarism30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Recreation and ceremony9
Natural5
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Other causes1

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 1999Natural59 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 1998Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 1998Arson/incendiarism10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1995Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1995Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1995Misuse of fire by a minor3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2019Railroad operations and maintenance6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190925-11

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Clair County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Chulavista: 5 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
Jump-Off RockIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown

Every working recorded in St. Clair 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
Cooks Springs1.5 miles21
Eden3.0 miles21
Lakeview3.0 miles21
Stewarts3.1 miles21
Tanyard3.5 miles21
Walkerton3.8 miles21
Harrisburg4.1 miles21
Park Hill4.3 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 164604. 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.