Frog Eye, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the New Site census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36276. It stands on Hodnett Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wadley South quadrangle. It stands 682 feet above sea level.

Frog Eye within Tallapoosa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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.

1891 USGS Ashland quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1953 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Wadley South quadrangle1:24000
1978 USGS La Grange quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

81 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 81 fires within 5 miles of Frog Eye between 1994 and 2019, burning about 974 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 27 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 burning	30
Arson/incendiarism	27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Natural	2
Smoking	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
8 September 1997	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1998	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	12 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160929-12
29 September 2001	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2019	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190920-8
3 August 2002	Arson/incendiarism	12 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
22 August 2014	Power generation/transmission/distribution	21 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	ECR-20140822-001
20 July 1995	Misuse of fire by a minor	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tallapoosa County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Frog Eye: 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mica, Gold. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Carleton Mine	Mica	Past Producer
	W.D. Mitchell Property No. 2	Gold	Occurrence	Gold

Every working recorded in Tallapoosa 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Denver	2.7 miles	10
Daviston	2.8 miles	11
Everglade	4.0 miles	11
Persons Bridge (historical)	4.1 miles	10
Truett	4.4 miles	11
Oakfuskudshi (historical)	5.1 miles	11
Hampton	5.2 miles	10
Emuckfaw (historical)	6.2 miles	11

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 Frog Eye	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18392133	The 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 156385. 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.