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Confederate Hill Estates, Alabama

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Abernant census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35111. It stands on Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the McCalla quadrangle.

Confederate Hill Estates within Tuscaloosa County

On record in Confederate Hill Estates

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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

164 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 164 fires within 5 miles of Confederate Hill Estates between 1994 and 2020, burning about 779 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 56 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/incendiarism56
Debris and open burning52
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Recreation and ceremony12
Equipment and vehicle use5
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Smoking4
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Natural1
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 2002Debris and open burning6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 1995Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2002Arson/incendiarism2.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionNWR-20130903-001
29 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined33 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160929-10
24 September 2008Debris and open burning1.2 acresAlabama Forestry Commission7501 PINE VIEW ROAD-MCCALLA, AL
24 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1995Recreation and ceremony12 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tuscaloosa County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 41 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 41 workings within 5 miles of Confederate Hill Estates: 18 occurrences, 13 past producers, 9 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese, Iron, 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
Cobern No. 1 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
R C Coleman ProspectIron, ManganeseOccurrence
Woodstock Brown Iron Ore DepositManganese, IronPast Producer1830, 1961
Bibb CountyIronUnknown
EdwardsIronUnknown
GilesIronUnknown
GreenpondIronUnknown
Martaban MineIronPast Producer
O A Griffin ProspectIronOccurrence
Red Ridge Area, Birmingham DistriIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Tuscaloosa 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
Tannehill0.4 miles20
Kimbrell1.6 miles20
Bucksville1.6 miles20
Rickey2.6 miles19
Cloester Valley3.0 miles20
Caffee Junction3.2 miles19
Lake View3.5 miles19
Million Dollar Lake Estates3.8 miles19

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 Q122567308The 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 148916. 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.