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Dudleyville, Alabama

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Dadeville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36850. The Survey maps it on the Dudleyville quadrangle. It stands 741 feet above sea level.

Dudleyville within Tallapoosa County

On record in Dudleyville

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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.

Black-Gilling House, County Road 44, Dudleyville, Tallapoosa County, AL
Black-Gilling House, County Road 44, Dudleyville, Tallapoosa County, AL
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

66 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 66 fires within 5 miles of Dudleyville between 1994 and 2019, burning about 824 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 24 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/incendiarism24
Debris and open burning23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Recreation and ceremony4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Smoking1
Other causes1

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 1998Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2006Arson/incendiarism26 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined80 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionECR-20120926-003
25 September 2016Debris and open burning20 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160925-8
24 September 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20180924-2
23 September 2016Debris and open burning8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160923-19
23 August 2019Natural1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190823-2
2 August 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tallapoosa County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Dudleyville: 6 occurrences, 5 past producers, 5 prospects, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Talc-Soapstone, Mica, Gold, Asbestos. 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
Allen Clay ProspectClayProspect
Heard-Dennis ProspectAsbestosProspect
Morgan PlacerGoldOccurrence1892
Morgan PlacerGoldPast ProducerPlacer
Abernathy MineMicaPast Producer
Buttston Mica MineMicaUnknown
Carleton MineMicaPast Producer
Easterwood MineMicaPast Producer
Howard MineMicaPast Producer
Saunders ProspectMicaOccurrence

Every working recorded in Tallapoosa 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
Buttston3.0 miles11
Hampton3.1 miles10
Persons Bridge (historical)4.1 miles10
Oakfuskudshi (historical)4.5 miles11
Easton5.1 miles11
Denver5.5 miles10
Matilda (historical)5.8 miles11
Everglade6.4 miles11

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 DudleyvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q17514816The 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 117634. 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.