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Danzler, Alabama

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Hayden census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35079. It lies near Hamilton Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Arkadelphia quadrangle.

Danzler within Blount County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 23 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

174 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 174 fires within 5 miles of Danzler between 1994 and 2019, burning about 1,775 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 21 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/undetermined88
Debris and open burning41
Arson/incendiarism21
Recreation and ceremony13
Equipment and vehicle use6
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
8 September 2010Smoking2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1995Smoking20 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionNER-20140929-001
23 September 2010Arson/incendiarism10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160922-12
21 September 2010Arson/incendiarism45 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Blount County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Danzler: 2 prospects, 1 past producer. 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
Blo 7 Clay ProspectClayProspect
Shannon MineIronPast Producer
Unnamed ProspectIronProspect

Every working recorded in Blount 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
Reids1.9 miles23
Sulpher Springs2.8 miles23
Red Hill3.3 miles23
Smoke Rise3.4 miles23
Sloan4.4 miles23
Blount Springs6.0 miles23
Bent Tree6.0 miles23
Hayden6.7 miles23

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 Q122553474The 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 154093. 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.