Five Points South, 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 38 shown

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

• Agee Houselisted 1986 · 0.2 miles away
• Five Points South Historic District (Boundary Increase)listed 1986 · 0.2 miles away
• Five Points South Historic Districtlisted 1983 · 0.3 miles away
• Quinlan Castlelisted 1984 · 0.3 miles away
• Five Points South Historic District (Boundary Increase II)listed 1991 · 0.3 miles away
• Anderson Place Historic Districtlisted 1986 · 0.4 miles away
• Bradshaw Houselisted 1980 · 0.5 miles away
• Phelan Park Historic Districtlisted 1989 · 0.5 miles away
• Saint Andrew's Episcopal Churchlisted 1986 · 0.6 miles away
• Fire Station No. 3listed 1990 · 0.6 miles away
• Bottega Favoritalisted 1986 · 0.6 miles away
• Second Presbyterian Churchlisted 1986 · 0.6 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 27 fires within 5 miles of Five Points South between 1993 and 2016, burning about 746 acres in total. None started naturally. 14 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:

• Cullom Place
• Hollywood
• Mayfair
• Richmond Place
• Rosedale
• Southwood

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 24 workings within 5 miles of Five Points South: 14 past producers, 4 unknowns, 3 producers, 3 plants. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Vermiculite. 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

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 118340. 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.