Cypress Heights, Alabama

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Florence census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35630. It stands on Cox Creek. The Survey maps it on the Florence quadrangle.

Cypress Heights within Lauderdale County

On record in Cypress Heights

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

James Martin Houselisted 1981 · 0.8 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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.

1914 USGS Muscle Shoals quadrangle1:48000
1916 USGS Muscle Shoals quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1936 USGS Florence quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Florence quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Florence quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1986 USGS Tuscumbia quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

132 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 132 fires within 5 miles of Cypress Heights between 1997 and 2019, burning about 430 acres in total. None started naturally. 43 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	53
Arson/incendiarism	43
Smoking	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Fireworks	1
Recreation and ceremony	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 1999	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	30 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	NOR-20130903-001
29 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190929-11
29 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	115 COUNTY ROAD 249, AL
28 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2008	Smoking	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	COUNTY ROAD 200, AL
25 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2015	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	NOR-20150922-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lauderdale 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 Cypress Heights: 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Silica, Aluminum. 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
	Lister Hill Reduction Plant	Silica, Aluminum	Plant

Every working recorded in Lauderdale 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
Country Club Acres	0.7 miles	19
Briarcliff	1.0 miles	19
Cypress Crest	1.1 miles	19
Three Forks	1.1 miles	19
Cypress Forest	1.3 miles	19
Glendale Estates	1.5 miles	19
North Florence	1.9 miles	19
Six Points	1.9 miles	19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156244. 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.