East Thomas, Alabama

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

On the National Register within a mile 12 of 14 shown

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• Graymont Schoollisted 2007 · 0.3 miles away
• First Baptist Church, East Thomaslisted 2005 · 0.4 miles away
• First Ebenezer Baptist Churchlisted 2005 · 0.7 miles away
• Sardis Baptist Churchlisted 2005 · 0.7 miles away
• Dr. A. M. Brown Houselisted 1974 · 0.8 miles away
• Fire Station No. 11listed 1990 · 0.9 miles away
• Rickwood Fieldlisted 1993 · 0.9 miles away
• Center Street Historic Districtlisted 2007 · 0.2 miles away
• Joseph Riley Smith Historic Districtlisted 1985 · 0.2 miles away
• Smithfield Historic Districtlisted 1985 · 0.7 miles away
• Smithfield Historic District (Boundary Increase)listed 1998 · 0.7 miles away
• Windham Construction Office Buildinglisted 1984 · 0.7 miles away

Every listing in Jefferson County

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.

• 1889 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:125000
• 1892 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:125000
• 1895 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
• 1904 USGS Birmingham Coal District quadrangle1:62500
• 1906 USGS Birmingham Coal District quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1906 USGS Birmingham Special quadrangle1:62500
• 1907 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
• 1953 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1956 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Birmingham North quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
• 1975 USGS Birmingham North quadrangle1:24000
• 1984 USGS Birmingham North quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1997 USGS Birmingham North quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of East Thomas between 1993 and 2020, burning about 903 acres in total. None started naturally. 23 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• East Thomas Gardens
• Fountain Heights
• Graymont
• Magnolia Heights
• Pratt City
• Smithfield

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 25 workings within 5 miles of East Thomas: 13 past producers, 4 plants, 4 producers, 4 unknowns. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, 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.

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Thomas in 1 storm report in 2013: 1 hail. 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.

Every storm recorded in Jefferson County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 117790. 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.