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Gantts Junction, Alabama

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Sylacauga census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35151. The Survey maps it on the Sylacauga West quadrangle.

Gantts Junction within Talladega County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 23 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

233 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 233 fires within 5 miles of Gantts Junction between 1994 and 2019, burning about 3,858 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 75 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 burning101
Arson/incendiarism75
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Recreation and ceremony11
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Smoking1
Other causes1

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
9 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2002Arson/incendiarism12 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1998Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2007Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2007Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2000Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Talladega County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 24 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 24 workings within 5 miles of Gantts Junction: 7 past producers, 7 unknowns, 4 producers, 3 prospects. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Marble, Dimension, 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
Kymulga ProspectAluminumOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectCopperOccurrence
Wesson Manganese MineManganeseProspect1918
Wesson Mn Mine Big Grunt MineManganesePast ProducerResidual
Alabama Marble Co. QuarryMarble, DimensionPast Producer
Gantts Number 2 QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Hightower QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Marble City Quarry Co. QuarryMarble, DimensionPast Producer
Morretti-Harrah QuarryMarble, DimensionProducer
Sylacauga Clay PitClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Talladega 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
Gantts Quarry1.4 miles23
Thomas Hill1.5 miles23
Oak Grove1.6 miles23
Walco1.9 miles23
Five Points2.1 miles23
Mignon2.2 miles23
Sylacauga2.5 miles23
Comerdale3.1 miles23

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 Q122551548The 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 156392. 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.