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Folsom, Alabama

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Folsom census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36278. The Survey maps it on the Micaville quadrangle. It stands 1,214 feet above sea level.

Folsom within Randolph County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

187 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 187 fires within 5 miles of Folsom between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,726 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 48 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 burning82
Arson/incendiarism48
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Recreation and ceremony16
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural3
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
6 September 2010Debris and open burning21 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2018Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20180928-1
24 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190924-25
22 September 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20180922-5
2 September 1995Recreation and ceremony2.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2019Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190919-30
18 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190918-18

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Randolph County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 79 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 79 workings within 5 miles of Folsom: 39 past producers, 33 prospects, 4 occurrences, 2 unknowns. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Mica, Gold, Copper, Feldspar. 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
Old Woods Copper MineCopper, Zinc, Iron, SulfurPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Pyrrhotite, Sphalerite
Old Woods Cu MineCopper, Sulfur, ZincPast Producer
Ran 1 Clay ProspectFeldsparProspect
William Howle ProspectKyaniteProspect
First Woods ProspectCopperUnknown1854
Ayers ProspectGoldOccurrenceGold
Ayers ProspectGoldProspect
Crown Point Property ProspectGoldOccurrenceGold
Miller ProspectGoldOccurrenceGold
Miller ProspectGoldProspect

Every working recorded in Randolph 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
Pine Tuckey1.4 miles13
Wildwood1.7 miles13
Cedron1.9 miles13
Foster Crossroad2.2 miles13
Corinth2.3 miles13
Jordan Chapel2.8 miles12
Morrison Crossroad3.6 miles12
Milner3.6 miles13

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.

Wikipedia article on FolsomAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5464847The 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 140214. 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.