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Daisey City, Alabama

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Graysville-Adamsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35214. It lies near MacDonald Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Adamsville quadrangle.

Daisey City within Jefferson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 28 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

227 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 227 fires within 5 miles of Daisey City between 1994 and 2020, burning about 2,876 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 100 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
Arson/incendiarism100
Debris and open burning64
Missing data/not specified/undetermined32
Recreation and ceremony14
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Natural2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Other causes1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
7 September 1997Arson/incendiarism20 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2003Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionPICKLE DRIVE, AL
5 September 1998Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1998Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1998Arson/incendiarism30 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1999Recreation and ceremony20 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined28 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNER-20140921-002

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson 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 Daisey City: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Jef 1 Clay ProspectClayProspect

Every working recorded in Jefferson 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
Pinkney City1.0 miles28
Brookside1.5 miles28
Hillcrest Estates1.6 miles28
Blossburg1.6 miles28
Forestdale by the Brook1.7 miles28
Glasgow1.7 miles28
Scarlet Town1.8 miles28
Republic2.0 miles28

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 Q122549750The 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 117013. 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.