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DeArmanville, Alabama

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Choccolocco census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36207. It stands on Jackson Creek. The Survey maps it on the Anniston quadrangle. It stands 673 feet above sea level.

DeArmanville within Calhoun County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 19 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.

Photographs

1 photograph,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Borders-Blackman House, DeArmanville-Choccolocco Road, Oxford, Calhoun County, AL
Borders-Blackman House, DeArmanville-Choccolocco Road, Oxford, Calhoun County, AL
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

86 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 86 fires within 5 miles of DeArmanville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 989 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 35 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/incendiarism35
Debris and open burning20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Recreation and ceremony6
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
30 September 2014Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNER-20140930-001
15 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160915-13
13 September 1999Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 1999Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 1999Arson/incendiarism23 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 August 2011Arson/incendiarism17 acresNational Forests in Alabama585
25 August 2002Naturalunder an acreNational Forests in AlabamaHORSE BLOCK
22 August 2007Arson/incendiarism10 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 37 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 37 workings within 5 miles of DeArmanville: 17 unknowns, 10 past producers, 5 producers, 3 prospects. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Aluminum, 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
Cal 3 Clay ProspectClayProspect
De Armanville ProspectAluminum, KaolinProspect
Not Known, Ammiston AreaManganese, IronPast ProducerResidual
Anniston PitsIron, ManganesePast Producer1875
Norton No.2 PropertyManganeseProspect1942
Oxford QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Baker-Rhodes ProspectAluminumOccurrence
Hudson ProspectAluminumOccurrence
Austin PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Calhoun County

Storms near this place

1 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names DeArmanville in 1 storm report in 1994: 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1994Thunderstorm WindDearmanville$5,000Building damage was reported in Dearmanville in southwest Calhoun County.

Every storm 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
Spring Valley1.3 miles19
Holly Springs1.8 miles19
Golden Springs2.2 miles19
Boiling Spring2.3 miles21
Harmony2.5 miles19
Blue Pond3.0 miles21
Choccolocco3.4 miles19
Hicks3.4 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.

Wikipedia article on DeArmanvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q12889432The 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 159491. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.