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Cobb City, Alabama

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Gadsden census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35905. The Survey maps it on the Glencoe quadrangle.

Cobb City within Etowah County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

159 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 159 fires within 5 miles of Cobb City between 1994 and 2020, burning about 2,687 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 49 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 burning55
Arson/incendiarism49
Missing data/not specified/undetermined34
Recreation and ceremony10
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking3
Natural2
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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 1995Debris and open burning40 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1998Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1998Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1998Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1995Debris and open burning35 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1998Debris and open burning25 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1998Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2010Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Etowah County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 38 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 38 workings within 5 miles of Cobb City: 12 unknowns, 12 past producers, 8 prospects, 5 occurrences. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Barium-Barite, Manganese, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
C B Allen AreaGraphitePast Producer1865, 1917
Unnamed QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerQuartz
Whorton Bend PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Grady NortonManganesePast Producer1917
Norton DepositManganesePast ProducerSurface
Pryor Mine/Norton Deposit/Davis GapIron, ManganesePast ProducerHematite
Albert Taylor ProspectBarium-BariteProspect
J F Noah ProspectBarium-BariteOccurrence
John T Hagen ProspectBarium-BariteOccurrence
Milt Phillips ProspectBarium-BariteProspect

Every working recorded in Etowah 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
Colvin0.3 miles18
Rock Spring1.4 miles18
Keysburg2.0 miles18
Pine Grove2.0 miles18
Nisbit (historical)2.6 miles18
Glencoe3.0 miles18
Smiths Crossroads3.9 miles18
Masingale (historical)4.7 miles18

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 Q122559280The 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 116324. 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.