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Feddisburg, Alabama

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Renfroe-Laniers census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35014. The Survey maps it on the Laniers quadrangle.

Feddisburg within Talladega County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

676 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 676 fires within 5 miles of Feddisburg between 1994 and 2020, burning about 10,739 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 250 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 burning261
Arson/incendiarism250
Missing data/not specified/undetermined76
Recreation and ceremony54
Equipment and vehicle use14
Railroad operations and maintenance7
Natural6
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Smoking3
Other causes1

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 2002Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2005Arson/incendiarism23 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1997Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1999Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1998Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Talladega County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Feddisburg: 8 unknowns, 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
Alpine Mountain ProspectIronUnknown
Cook BedsIronPast ProducerResidual
J.M. PattersonIronPast ProducerResidual
Levi Sherrill PropertyIronPast ProducerResidual
Norman MountainIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown

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
Briarfield1.0 miles21
Saint Ives1.3 miles21
Ledbetter2.4 miles21
Clear Creek Estates2.6 miles21
Hepzibah2.8 miles21
Jonesview2.8 miles21
Alpine Bay2.9 miles21
Willingham Estates2.9 miles21

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 Q122548014The 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 144812. 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.