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Coosa River, Alabama

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Deatsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36022. It stands on Gennie Branch. The Survey maps it on the Holtville quadrangle.

Coosa River within Elmore County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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

145 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 145 fires within 5 miles of Coosa River between 1994 and 2020, burning about 448 acres in total. None started naturally. 18 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 burning56
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Equipment and vehicle use20
Arson/incendiarism18
Recreation and ceremony9
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Smoking1
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
7 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2007Arson/incendiarism26 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2014Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionECR-20140917-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Elmore County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Coosa River: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
Elmore PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerQuartz

Every working recorded in Elmore 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
Holtville2.4 miles16
Cold Spring2.7 miles17
Deatsville3.1 miles17
Adkin Hill4.1 miles17
Weoka Mills4.3 miles16
Lightwood4.5 miles15
Speigner4.6 miles17
Titus5.2 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 116596. 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.