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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 14 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1901 USGS Wetumpka quadrangle1:125000
- 1903 USGS Wetumpka quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Equality quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Clanton quadrangle1:100000
- 1987 USGS Clanton quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
87 since 1994Regional 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 burning | 43 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 23 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 12 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 September 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 September 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 24 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | ECR-20140924-001 |
| 23 September 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 22 September 2018 | Debris and open burning | 25 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20180922-9 |
| 16 September 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 9 July 2006 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
8 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coo 2 Clay Prospect | Clay | Prospect | ||
| Coosa Gibbsite Prospect | Aluminum | Prospect | 1960 | |
| Thomas Prospect | Mica | Prospect | ||
| USGS MR-60 Alabama No.4 Prospect | Fluorine-Fluorite | Occurrence | ||
| Rockford Area B | Gold | Past Producer | Placer | |
| Rockford Area C | Gold | Past Producer | Placer | |
| Rockford Placer | Gold | Past Producer | Placer | |
| Rockford Placer | Gold | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
9 since 2008Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cottage Grove | $3,000 | Several trees were uprooted and snapped off, west of Alexander City. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cottage Grove | - | Trees were blown down along County Road 32 in eastern Coosa County. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cottage Grove | - | Several trees uprooted along Highway 9 just north of Highway 22. |
| May 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cottage Grove | - | Several trees uprooted and fell on a home with two persons trapped. |
| January 2019 | Tornado (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 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cottage Grove | - | Several trees uprooted and power lines downed along County Road 63. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Cottage Grove | - | Several trees were uprooted and power lines down. |
| May 2011 | Hail | Cottage Grove | - | no account filed |
| April 2008 | Hail | Cottage Grove | - | no account filed |
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.
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.







