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Goodwins Mill, Alabama

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Springville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35146. It stands on Walker Branch. The Survey maps it on the Springville quadrangle.

Goodwins Mill within St. Clair County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 21 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

92 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 92 fires within 5 miles of Goodwins Mill between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,469 acres in total. None started naturally. 19 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 burning43
Arson/incendiarism19
Recreation and ceremony9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use5
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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 1995Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1995Debris and open burning15 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1998Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1994Railroad operations and maintenance25 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2016Debris and open burning26 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160922-15
15 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1998Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Clair County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Goodwins Mill: 8 past producers, 2 unknowns, 2 occurrences, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Hatchet Creek PlacerGoldPast ProducerPlacer
Hatchet Creek PlacerGoldPast ProducerPlacer
Barker Mountain ProspectIronProspect
Goodwins Mill AreaIronPast Producer
Springville-St. Clair AreaIronPast ProducerHematite
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
Unnamed MineIronPast Producer
Unnamed MineIronPast Producer
Unnamed MineIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in St. Clair 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
Caldwell1.2 miles19
Cool Springs3.4 miles19
Pinedale Shores4.0 miles19
Saint Clair Springs4.1 miles21
Springville5.5 miles21
Whitney Junction5.9 miles19
Whitney6.0 miles19
Ashville7.0 miles19

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 Q122541460The 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 164671. 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.