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Garnersville, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Petrey-Highland Home census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36041. The Survey maps it on the Lapine quadrangle.

Garnersville within Crenshaw County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

104 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 104 fires within 5 miles of Garnersville between 1994 and 2020, burning about 470 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 21 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 burning34
Arson/incendiarism21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Recreation and ceremony13
Equipment and vehicle use9
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Smoking4
Fireworks1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Natural1

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
8 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenance3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2002Debris and open burning4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSER-20140922-001
18 September 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 1994Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 1994Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 2020Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20200806-2
25 August 2007Naturalunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crenshaw County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 29 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 29 workings within 5 miles of Garnersville: 14 unknowns, 10 occurrences, 3 past producers, 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, 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
Cre 2 Clay ProspectClayProspect
Cre 7 Clay ProspectClayProspect
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown

Every working recorded in Crenshaw 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
Bradleyton2.4 miles8
Sardis2.9 miles8
Saville3.1 miles8
Petrey3.9 miles7
Magnolia Shores4.1 miles8
Helicon4.1 miles8
Fullers Crossroads4.5 miles7
Live Oak4.9 miles7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 118843. 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.