Cox, Alabama

34 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Mobile census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36605. It stands on Eslava Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mobile quadrangle.

Cox within Mobile County

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 34 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.

1922 USGS Mobile quadrangle1:62500
1940 USGS Mobile quadrangle1:31680, 3 printings
1940 USGS Mobile quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1943 USGS Mobile quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
1944 USGS Mobile quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1953 USGS Mobile quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1953 USGS Mobile quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Mobile quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Mobile quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Mobile quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Mobile quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Mobile quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1984 USGS Mobile quadrangle1:100000
1994 USGS Mobile quadrangle1:100000

Photographs

1 photograph,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Cox-Deasy House, 1115 Palmetto Street, Mobile, Mobile County, AL
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

30 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Cox between 1994 and 2019, burning about 445 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Arson/incendiarism	7
Debris and open burning	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
3 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	CR 16/CR 64, AL
2 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	SWR-20150902-001
30 May 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
27 May 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	SWR-20140527-003
21 May 2007	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 April 2006	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
27 April 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	SWR-20130427-001
27 April 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	3.7 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	720 KENTUCKY RD, AL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mobile 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 Cox: 6 producers, 1 past producer, 1 plant. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Calcium, Perlite, Titanium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Kerr-Mcgee Mobile Facility	Titanium	Plant
Mobile Dredge	Calcium	Producer
Mobile Plant	Perlite	Producer
Flamingo Dredge	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Halls Mill Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Laidlaw Pit No. 3	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Mobile Mine	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Pierre Dredge	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Mobile 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Neshota	0.4 miles	34
Forest Park	1.0 miles	34
Farnell	1.1 miles	34
Mertz	1.4 miles	34
Navco	1.5 miles	34
Sherwood	1.6 miles	33
Belvedere	1.6 miles	34
Brookwood	2.2 miles	34

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 154667. 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.