BlockBefore

Hall Valley, Alabama

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Cedar Bluff-Gaylesville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35959. The Survey maps it on the Chattoogaville quadrangle.

Hall Valley within Cherokee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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

325 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 325 fires within 5 miles of Hall Valley between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,146 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 212 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
Arson/incendiarism212
Debris and open burning74
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Equipment and vehicle use8
Natural4
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
7 September 1999Arson/incendiarism6.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-FLOYD-017
25 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined17 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160925-10
25 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 1999Debris and open burning1.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined44 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20200922-5

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cherokee 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 Hall Valley: 3 unknowns, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence

Every working recorded in Cherokee 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
Farill1.4 miles17
Sterling (historical)2.1 miles19
Fullerton3.1 miles16
Waterhouse3.6 miles17
Cedar Springs (historical)3.6 miles16
Lawrence3.6 miles19
Grantville (historical)3.7 miles17
Alpine Shores4.0 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 136904. 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.