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Dunnavant, Alabama

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Chelsea census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35094. It stands on Big Branch. The Survey maps it on the Vandiver quadrangle. 936 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 666 feet above sea level.

Dunnavant within Shelby County

Population over time

2 figures

Dunnavant fell from 981 to 936 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010981
2020936-45 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 21 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

129 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 129 fires within 5 miles of Dunnavant between 1994 and 2019, burning about 3,420 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 40 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 burning48
Arson/incendiarism40
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Recreation and ceremony5
Natural2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
9 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1995Debris and open burning40 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2016Debris and open burning6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160924-19
20 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1997Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 1997Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shelby County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Dunnavant: 4 past producers, 3 producers, 1 plant. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Barium-Barite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Birmingham QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Leeds Cement PlantStonePlant
Leeds Mine & QuarryClay, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
U.S. Steel Corp. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
J M Dorough MineBarium-BaritePast Producer
J.M. DoroughBarium-BaritePast ProducerResidual
Leeds Brown Fe MinesIronPast ProducerResidual
Leeds Brown Iron Ore MinesIronPast ProducerGoethite

Every working recorded in Shelby 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
Winburn1.0 miles27
Vandiver2.3 miles21
Sterrett4.6 miles22
Lawley5.2 miles21
Bridgeton6.9 miles22
Calcis7.5 miles22
Brook Highland7.9 miles22
Lake Purdy8.4 miles22

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 DunnavantAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1262265The 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 117649. 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.