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Deer Head Cove, Alabama

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Ider census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35966. The Survey maps it on the Trenton quadrangle.

Deer Head Cove within DeKalb County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

262 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 262 fires within 5 miles of Deer Head Cove between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,718 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 81 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 burning123
Arson/incendiarism81
Missing data/not specified/undetermined31
Recreation and ceremony9
Equipment and vehicle use7
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
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
7 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020DADE005
7 September 2010Debris and open burning2.5 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-DADE-003
24 September 2019Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020DADE006
21 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190921-13
20 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20200920-4
20 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20200920-5
17 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNOR-20150917-001
17 September 2011Debris and open burning5.4 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-DADE-019

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in DeKalb 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 Deer Head Cove: 8 past producers, 5 prospects, 3 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Dimension, 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
Halloysite MineClayPast Producer
Southern Iron and Steel Co QuarryStone, DimensionPast Producer
Bibble MineIronPast ProducerStrataform, Concordant
Phoenix Iron & Coal MinesIronPast ProducerStrataform, Concordant
Unnamed MineIronPast Producer
Unnamed ProspectIronProspect
Unnamed ProspectIronProspect
Unnamed ProspectIronPast Producer
Unnamed ProspectIronProspect
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence

Every working recorded in DeKalb 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
Cartersville1.5 miles23
Beulah1.9 miles23
Old Blevins Mill3.5 miles21
Gann Crossroad3.7 miles23
Shiloh4.4 miles23
Sulphur Springs5.2 miles23
Yorks Mill5.2 miles21
Mount Olive5.6 miles23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 158274. 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.