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Eddings Town, Alabama

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Piper-Coleanor census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35115. The Survey maps it on the Pea Ridge quadrangle.

Eddings Town within Bibb County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

249 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 249 fires within 5 miles of Eddings Town between 1994 and 2020, burning about 3,949 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 158 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/incendiarism158
Debris and open burning62
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Recreation and ceremony6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Natural3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2003Arson/incendiarism24 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 2002Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1997Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20200906-2
5 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1994Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2000Arson/incendiarism10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2005Arson/incendiarism22 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bibb County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Eddings Town: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Barium-Barite. 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
Julian Fancher MineBarium-BaritePast Producer

Every working recorded in Bibb 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
Garnsey Number 21.4 miles18
Marvel1.4 miles20
Garnsey1.6 miles20
Cane Creek (historical)2.6 miles20
Seymour2.9 miles19
Masena3.8 miles20
Coleanor4.2 miles19
Belle Ellen4.2 miles19

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 Q122596912The 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 138369. 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.