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De Soto Manor, Alabama

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Anniston census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36260. The Survey maps it on the Munford quadrangle.

De Soto Manor within Calhoun County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 21 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

93 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 93 fires within 5 miles of De Soto Manor between 1994 and 2020, burning about 898 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 28 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 burning31
Arson/incendiarism28
Recreation and ceremony12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Smoking1

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 2020Debris and open burning8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20200907-2
26 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1998Debris and open burning8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 1998Smoking8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 2002Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 2002Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Calhoun County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of De Soto Manor: 10 unknowns, 5 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Barium-Barite, 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
Giles Myric MineBarium-BaritePast Producer
Glencoe QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
No NameIron, ManganesePast ProducerResidual
Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
John Bruce'sIronPast ProducerResidual
No NameIronPast ProducerResidual
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown

Every working recorded in Calhoun 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
Bynum0.9 miles21
Tarsus (historical)0.9 miles21
Burns Crossroad1.7 miles21
Meade (historical)2.6 miles19
Gauldinville2.6 miles21
Eastaboga2.8 miles23
Vinnette2.9 miles19
New Haven3.0 miles21

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 Q122553591The 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 162172. 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.