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Cumbee Mill, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Five Points census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36855. It stands on Gross Branch. The Survey maps it on the Five Points quadrangle.

Cumbee Mill within Chambers County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

150 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 150 fires within 5 miles of Cumbee Mill between 1994 and 2020, burning about 872 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 29 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 burning63
Arson/incendiarism29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Equipment and vehicle use10
Railroad operations and maintenance9
Recreation and ceremony9
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Natural1

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
9 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2019Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190927-20
24 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190924-26
24 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190924-29
23 September 2018Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20180923-3
23 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chambers 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 Cumbee Mill: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Manganese. 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
R.I.Beckem PropertyIron, ManganeseOccurrence

Every working recorded in Chambers 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
Stroud1.3 miles11
Finley1.8 miles11
Welch1.9 miles11
Standing Rock3.3 miles11
Five Points4.0 miles11
Doublehead4.6 miles11
McCosh Mill5.0 miles14
Oakland5.5 miles14

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122589042The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156239. 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.