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Dudley, Alabama

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Coaling-Vance census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35490. It stands on Toxeys Spring Branch. The Survey maps it on the Coaling quadrangle.

Dudley within Tuscaloosa 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.

Fires near this place

90 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 90 fires within 5 miles of Dudley between 1994 and 2019, burning about 1,506 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 46 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/incendiarism46
Debris and open burning24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Equipment and vehicle use3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
4 September 2000Arson/incendiarism10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2000Arson/incendiarism26 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 1998Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 2016Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160914-7
11 September 1995Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
31 August 1999Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 August 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
14 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tuscaloosa County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Dudley: 10 unknowns, 4 past producers, 4 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Calcium, Aluminum, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, Free. 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
Big Sandy AreaIron, Calcium, Aluminum, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Silica, Water, FreePast Producer1900, 1903
Big Sandy No. 1 MineIronPast Producer
Bucksville Area ProspectIronOccurrence
Gulf States Paper Corp ProspectIronOccurrence
No NameIronPast ProducerHematite
PinckardIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown

Every working recorded in Tuscaloosa County

Storms near this place

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dudley in 2 storm reports between 2009 and 2019: 2 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
April 2009Thunderstorm WindDudley$1,000Power lines were blown down on Wire Road, near Vance.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindDudley-Several trees uprooted on Wire Road between the cities of Vance and Coaling.

Every storm recorded in Tuscaloosa 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
Cedar Cove1.5 miles19
Coaling2.2 miles19
Vance3.6 miles19
Grimes4.9 miles19
Dowdle5.0 miles19
Brookwood6.6 miles21
Nichol Hills6.7 miles19
Eastern Hills6.8 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156283. 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.