Cotton Ridge, Alabama

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.

• 1889 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:125000
• 1892 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:125000
• 1895 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
• 1905 USGS Leeds quadrangle1:62500
• 1907 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
• 1907 USGS Leeds quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1953 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1956 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Argo quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
• 1975 USGS Argo quadrangle1:24000
• 1984 USGS Birmingham North quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 112 fires within 5 miles of Cotton Ridge between 1994 and 2019, burning about 1,018 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 39 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Rolling Hills
• Meadowview Estates
• Breakstone Village
• Candlewood Lakes
• East Trussville (historical)
• Echo Hills

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Cotton Ridge: 14 occurrences, 2 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1700561. 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.