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Green Cove Meadows, Alabama

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Huntsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35803. It lies near Bell Hill. The Survey maps it on the Farley quadrangle.

Green Cove Meadows within Madison County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

30 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Green Cove Meadows between 1993 and 2019, burning about 281 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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 burning9
Arson/incendiarism8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
3 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20180903-6
22 September 1997Arson/incendiarism30 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1995Debris and open burning15 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190912-15
11 September 2002Arson/incendiarism10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 June 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresWheeler National Wildlife RefugeFM 98-5
21 June 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Green Cove Meadows: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Dixie Dredge No.8Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
South Parway Quarry No. 1Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
General Shale Products Co. PitClayProducer
Wheeler Lake MineClayProducer

Every working recorded in Madison 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
Sandhurst Park0.3 miles23
Redstone Park0.4 miles23
Farley0.7 miles23
Whitesburg1.5 miles23
South Park Estates1.6 miles23
Regent Forest1.9 miles23
English Village2.0 miles25
Woodridge2.1 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 Q122543719The 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 146941. 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.