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East Mill, Alabama

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Millerville-Hollins census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35072. It stands on Partridge Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bulls Gap quadrangle.

East Mill within Clay 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

131 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 131 fires within 5 miles of East Mill between 1993 and 2020, burning about 2,685 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 35 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 burning41
Arson/incendiarism35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined32
Recreation and ceremony9
Natural4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Equipment and vehicle use3
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
30 September 2001Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2019Debris and open burning4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190924-24
22 September 2018Recreation and ceremony50 acresNational Forests in AlabamaBOULDER
19 September 2010Natural2.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNational Forests in Alabamanot named
10 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190910-8
10 September 2006Debris and open burning23 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of East Mill: 5 past producers, 3 unknowns, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Iron, Graphite, Fluorine-Fluorite. 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
Reams Clay ProspectClayProspect
USGS MR-60 Alabama No.7 ProspectFluorine-FluoriteOccurrence
Epps - Goodwater AreaGraphitePast Producer1865, 1917
Parkdale MineGraphitePast Producer
Miller MineGoldPast Producer1843
Miller MineGoldPast ProducerPlacer
Miller MineGoldPast Producer
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown

Every working recorded in Clay 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
Brownsville0.4 miles23
Skeggs Crossroads3.3 miles23
Shady Grove3.6 miles23
Cleveland Crossroads3.7 miles12
Roselle3.8 miles23
Hollins4.9 miles23
Pinkneyville5.2 miles12
Glades6.5 miles14

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.

Wikidata item Q122594844The 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 159549. 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.