Gatesville, 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.

• 1925 USGS Barton quadrangle1:62500
• 1926 USGS Barton quadrangle1:48000
• 1929 USGS Barton quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1936 USGS Pride quadrangle1:24000
• 1954 USGS Pride quadrangle1:24000
• 1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
• 1971 USGS Pride quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1986 USGS Tuscumbia quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 123 fires within 5 miles of Gatesville (historical) between 1993 and 2019, burning about 758 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 50 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:

• Pride
• Mountain Mills (historical)
• Red Rock
• Barton
• Cedar Hills Estates
• Hawk Pride

Every fire recorded in Colbert County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Gatesville (historical): 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General, Rock Asphalt, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 Colbert 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 132893. 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.