Dearing Downs, Alabama

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.

• 1890 USGS Bessemer quadrangle1:125000
• 1892 USGS Bessemer quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
• 1905 USGS Bessemer Iron District quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1905 USGS Bessemer Special quadrangle1:48000
• 1907 USGS Bessemer Iron District quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1907 USGS Bessemer Special quadrangle1:62500
• 1953 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1956 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Helena quadrangle1:24000, 7 printings
• 1975 USGS Helena quadrangle1:24000
• 1984 USGS Birmingham South quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1997 USGS Helena quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 98 fires within 5 miles of Dearing Downs between 1994 and 2017, burning about 777 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 23 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Calliston
• Chandalar South
• Helena
• Paramount
• Tacoa
• Blueberry Estates

Every fire recorded in Shelby County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Dearing Downs: 4 producers, 3 past producers, 3 unknowns, 1 prospect. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Calcium, Bloating Material. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Shelby County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 146408. 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.