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Friendship, Alabama

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Anniston census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36203. It stands on Hillabee Creek. The Survey maps it on the Oxford quadrangle.

Friendship within Calhoun 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.

Photographs

1 photograph,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Freeman-Caver-Christian House, Upper Friendship Road, Oxford, Calhoun County, AL
Freeman-Caver-Christian House, Upper Friendship Road, Oxford, Calhoun County, AL
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

92 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 92 fires within 5 miles of Friendship between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,928 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 46 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/incendiarism46
Debris and open burning20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Recreation and ceremony7
Natural5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
30 September 2014Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNER-20140930-001
23 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreNational Forests in AlabamaFIRE BALL
13 September 1998Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 2002Natural47 acresNational Forests in AlabamaSUNDAY
25 August 2002Naturalunder an acreNational Forests in AlabamaHORSE BLOCK
22 August 2007Arson/incendiarism10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
2 August 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 August 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Calhoun County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Friendship: 6 unknowns, 4 past producers, 2 prospects, 2 occurrences. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Aluminum, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Cal 3 Clay ProspectClayProspect
De Armanville ProspectAluminum, KaolinProspect
Oxford QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Baker-Rhodes ProspectAluminumOccurrence
Hudson ProspectAluminumOccurrence
Amminston AreaIronPast ProducerResidual
Uncertain, Anniston AreaIronPast ProducerResidual
Uncertain, Anniston AreaIronPast ProducerResidual
UnnamedIronUnknown

Every working recorded in Calhoun 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
Hicks0.7 miles21
Chinnabee (historical)1.7 miles21
Cheaha Acres1.8 miles21
Blue Pond2.0 miles21
Boiling Spring2.1 miles21
Jo Dell2.4 miles21
Lakeview2.6 miles21
Oxford3.1 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 162181. 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.