Garrett Heights, Alabama

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.

• 1908 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
• 1929 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:48000
• 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1949 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1955 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:62500
• 1955 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
• 1955 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1957 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
• 1981 USGS Americus quadrangle1:100000
• 1999 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 122 fires within 5 miles of Garrett Heights between 1992 and 2018, burning about 687 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 26 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Fontaine Village
• Kaolin
• Rolling Hills
• Girard
• Phenix City
• Ladonia

Every fire recorded in Russell County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Garrett Heights: 14 producers, 1 past producer. 14 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Titanium, Metal, Zirconium, Kyanite, REE. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Russell County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 138711. 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.