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Danielsville, Alabama

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Petrey-Highland Home census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36042. The Survey maps it on the Danielsville quadrangle.

Danielsville within Crenshaw County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

75 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of Danielsville between 1994 and 2020, burning about 265 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 9 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 burning26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Arson/incendiarism9
Recreation and ceremony6
Natural5
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Other causes1

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
22 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSER-20140922-001
10 September 2016Debris and open burning3.6 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160910-16
29 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionECR-20140829-003
14 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionECR-20140814-001
28 July 1995Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
26 July 1998Natural1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 July 1998Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 July 2000Natural3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crenshaw County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Danielsville: 12 unknowns, 6 occurrences, 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, 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
Cre 4 Clay ProspectClayProspect
Cre 6 Clay ProspectClayProspect
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown

Every working recorded in Crenshaw 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
Panola3.6 miles7
Honoraville4.8 miles7
Sardis5.0 miles8
Saville5.0 miles8
Highland Home5.4 miles8
Magnolia Shores6.0 miles8
Center Ridge7.2 miles7
Garnersville7.7 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 117057. 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.