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Harrisville, Alabama

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Altoona census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35952. It stands on Pole Creek. The Survey maps it on the Howelton quadrangle.

Harrisville within Etowah County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

105 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 105 fires within 5 miles of Harrisville between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,426 acres in total. None started naturally. 61 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/incendiarism61
Debris and open burning29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony2

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
8 September 1997Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2016Debris and open burning35 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160928-30
25 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160925-2
23 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160923-4
20 September 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1999Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Etowah County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 26 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 26 workings within 5 miles of Harrisville: 12 past producers, 9 prospects, 4 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Manganese, Nickel, Cobalt, Cobalt. 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
Greasy CoveManganese, Nickel, CobaltOccurrence
Greasy Cove ProspectManganese, CobaltPast ProducerPyrolusite
Osborn Pit No 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Bynum MineManganesePast Producer1876
Bynum-Mccright DepositManganesePast Producer1917
Collier-Edge DepositManganesePast Producer1942
Greasy Cove DepositManganesePast Producer1934
J.B.BynumManganesePast Producer1924
Not Known, Walnut Gove AreaManganesePast ProducerResidual
Sewell DepositManganesePast Producer1949

Every working recorded in Etowah 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
Hopper1.0 miles22
Redbud1.7 miles22
Howelton2.7 miles19
Boxtel2.8 miles22
Pana3.3 miles22
Schuler (historical)3.5 miles22
Gallant3.6 miles22
Walnut Grove4.0 miles22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 140610. 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.