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Duck Springs, Alabama

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Wills Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35954. It lies near Penitentiary Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Keener quadrangle.

Duck Springs within Etowah County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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

131 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 131 fires within 5 miles of Duck Springs between 1997 and 2019, burning about 1,268 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 58 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/incendiarism58
Debris and open burning54
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Equipment and vehicle use3
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Natural1
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
29 September 1998Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190925-16
25 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined46 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2004Debris and open burning4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1999Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2004Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2010Debris and open burning4.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Etowah County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Duck Springs: 5 past producers, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, 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
Black Warrior River Manganese Pros.ManganeseOccurrencePyrolusite, Wad
Campbell Gap Manganese ProspectManganeseOccurrence
Crudup MineIronPast ProducerHematite
Leed Gap AreaIronPast ProducerHematite
Not KnownIronPast ProducerHematite
Taylor Branch HollowIronPast ProducerHematite
W.F.Stowers MineIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Etowah 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
Smiths Bridge (historical)0.8 miles20
Kyuka1.9 miles22
Yancy2.1 miles20
Keener2.6 miles20
Liberty Hill2.8 miles22
Haworth (historical)2.9 miles22
Leath Gap (historical)2.9 miles22
Crudup3.1 miles22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 155058. 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.