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Coleanor, Alabama

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Piper-Coleanor census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35035. It stands on Big Ugly Creek. The Survey maps it on the West Blocton East quadrangle.

Coleanor within Bibb County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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

271 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 271 fires within 5 miles of Coleanor between 1994 and 2020, burning about 4,406 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 166 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/incendiarism166
Debris and open burning66
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Equipment and vehicle use7
Natural5
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
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
9 September 2003Arson/incendiarism24 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 2002Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1997Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20200906-2
6 September 1999Naturalunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1994Debris and open burning3.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1994Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bibb County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Coleanor: 5 past producers, 4 unknowns, 3 prospects, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Barium-Barite, Iron, Calcium, Fluorine-Fluorite, Zinc, Manganese. 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
Julian Fanciar MineBarium-Barite, CalciumProspectBarite, Calcite
No NameIron, ManganesePast ProducerResidual
Sinks ProspectBarium-Barite, Fluorine-FluoriteProspect
The Sinks MineBarium-Barite, Calcium, Fluorine-Fluorite, ZincProspect1875, 1914
Bright HopeIronPast ProducerResidual
GreeleyIronUnknown
StandifordIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
J. Fancher FanciarBarium-BaritePast ProducerResidual

Every working recorded in Bibb County

Storms near this place

1 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Coleanor in 1 storm report in 2015: 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2015HailColeanor-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bibb 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
Piper0.5 miles19
Cadle (historical)1.2 miles19
Seymour1.4 miles19
Hawkinsville (historical)1.5 miles19
Ardela (historical)1.5 miles19
Nash Town (historical)2.0 miles19
Hargrove (historical)2.3 miles19
Belle Ellen2.3 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156200. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.