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Fitzgerald Estates, Alabama

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Palmerdale census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35126. It stands on Dry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Pinson quadrangle.

Fitzgerald Estates within Jefferson County

On record in Fitzgerald Estates

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 1 record

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 28 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

144 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 144 fires within 5 miles of Fitzgerald Estates between 1994 and 2019, burning about 1,234 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 51 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/incendiarism51
Debris and open burning51
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Recreation and ceremony11
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1

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
7 September 1997Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1995Debris and open burning10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2016Debris and open burning7.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160929-4
24 September 2016Debris and open burning6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160924-7
19 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190919-19
18 September 2000Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1998Arson/incendiarism60 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 29 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 29 workings within 5 miles of Fitzgerald Estates: 21 occurrences, 4 unknowns, 2 past producers, 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Iron, Manganese, Clay. 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
Jef 3 Clay ProspectClayProspect
Mt Pinson MinesIron, ManganesePast ProducerGoethite
J O Norris ProspectIronOccurrence
Mt. Pinson MinesIronPast ProducerResidual
TarrantIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence

Every working recorded in Jefferson 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
Innsbrooke0.8 miles28
Pinson1.0 miles28
Ridgewood1.4 miles28
Heatherwood1.7 miles28
Carriage Hills1.8 miles28
White Oaks2.3 miles28
Overbrook Estates2.5 miles28
Palmerdale3.0 miles28

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 Q122598069The 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 1700568. 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.