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Green Pond, Alabama

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the West Blocton census division. The Survey maps it on the Woodstock quadrangle. It stands 594 feet above sea level.

Green Pond within Bibb County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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

199 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 199 fires within 5 miles of Green Pond between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,241 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 56 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 burning72
Arson/incendiarism56
Missing data/not specified/undetermined28
Recreation and ceremony19
Smoking8
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2002Debris and open burning6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 1995Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1996Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionNWR-20130903-001
24 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2000Arson/incendiarism49 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1997Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1998Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bibb County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 49 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 49 workings within 5 miles of Green Pond: 17 unknowns, 15 occurrences, 15 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese, Iron. 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
Woodstock Brown Iron Ore DepositManganese, IronPast Producer1830, 1961
Cobern No. 1 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Woodstock MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Woodstock QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Bibb CountyIronUnknown
EdwardsIronUnknown
GilesIronUnknown
GreenpondIronUnknown
HayesIronUnknown
HayesIronUnknown

Every working recorded in Bibb 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
Giles1.4 miles19
Blockton Junc1.4 miles19
Woodstock1.8 miles19
North Bibb2.0 miles19
Woodstock Junction2.2 miles19
Academy Park2.4 miles19
Bibbville3.4 miles19
Gray Hill3.7 miles20

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.

Wikipedia article on Green PondAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q12891166The 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 155084. 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.