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Cottage Grove, Alabama

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Rockford census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35089. The Survey maps it on the Equality quadrangle.

Cottage Grove within Coosa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

87 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 87 fires within 5 miles of Cottage Grove between 1994 and 2020, burning about 739 acres in total. None started naturally. 23 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 burning43
Arson/incendiarism23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Recreation and ceremony6
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
5 September 2000Arson/incendiarism12 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2001Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionECR-20140924-001
23 September 2001Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2018Debris and open burning25 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20180922-9
16 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
9 July 2006Debris and open burning1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coosa County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Cottage Grove: 4 past producers, 3 prospects, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Aluminum, Clay, Fluorine-Fluorite. 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
Coo 2 Clay ProspectClayProspect
Coosa Gibbsite ProspectAluminumProspect1960
Thomas ProspectMicaProspect
USGS MR-60 Alabama No.4 ProspectFluorine-FluoriteOccurrence
Rockford Area BGoldPast ProducerPlacer
Rockford Area CGoldPast ProducerPlacer
Rockford PlacerGoldPast ProducerPlacer
Rockford PlacerGoldPast Producer

Every working recorded in Coosa County

Storms near this place

9 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cottage Grove in 9 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 tornado. 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
May 2011Thunderstorm WindCottage Grove$3,000Several trees were uprooted and snapped off, west of Alexander City.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindCottage Grove-Trees were blown down along County Road 32 in eastern Coosa County.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindCottage Grove-Several trees uprooted along Highway 9 just north of Highway 22.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindCottage Grove-Several trees uprooted and fell on a home with two persons trapped.
January 2019Tornado (EF1)Cottage Grove-National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed damage in Coosa County and determined that it was consistent with an EF1 tornado, with maximum sustained winds near 100 mph. The tornado touched down near County Road 101, about one mile north of County Road 61. The tornado tracked northeast and paralleled County Road 101, where it |snapped or uprooted hundreds of trees. The tornado lifted on County Road 30, about one mile south of Highway 22.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindCottage Grove-Several trees uprooted and power lines downed along County Road 63.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindCottage Grove-Several trees were uprooted and power lines down.
May 2011HailCottage Grove-no account filed
April 2008HailCottage Grove-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Coosa 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
Nixburg2.0 miles14
Hissop3.0 miles14
Pinthlocco (historical)4.8 miles14
Ray5.0 miles14
Fishpond5.3 miles14
Jon5.5 miles14
Rockford5.7 miles14
Keyno5.7 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 116674. 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.