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Fair Park, Alabama

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Talladega census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35160. It stands on Mullins Branch. The Survey maps it on the Sleeping Giant quadrangle.

Fair Park within Talladega County

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

575 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 575 fires within 5 miles of Fair Park between 1994 and 2020, burning about 6,974 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 162 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 burning238
Arson/incendiarism162
Missing data/not specified/undetermined77
Recreation and ceremony52
Railroad operations and maintenance17
Equipment and vehicle use9
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Natural6
Smoking4
Other causes3

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 2002Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2002Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2002Arson/incendiarism20 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2002Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2002Natural20 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20200906-3

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Talladega 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 Fair Park: 5 past producers, 4 unknowns, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Aluminum. 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
Parsons MineAluminum, IronPast Producer
Talladega ProspectAluminumOccurrence
Alpine Mountain ProspectIronUnknown
Carlton Limonite BankIronPast ProducerResidual
J.M. PattersonIronPast ProducerResidual
Lawson Limonite BanksIronPast ProducerResidual
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
Webb's BankIronPast ProducerResidual

Every working recorded in Talladega 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
Barclay0.9 miles21
Renfroe1.1 miles21
Jonesview2.5 miles21
Thornhill2.8 miles21
Tucktown2.9 miles21
Hepzibah3.0 miles21
Shocco Springs3.0 miles21
Mardisville3.1 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 144808. 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.