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Hendrixville, Alabama

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Collinsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35954. It stands on Nobe Branch. The Survey maps it on the Keener quadrangle.

Hendrixville within DeKalb County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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

110 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 110 fires within 5 miles of Hendrixville between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,040 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 39 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/incendiarism39
Debris and open burning35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined28
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural2
Smoking2

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
28 September 2016Debris and open burning1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160928-21
25 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190925-16
19 September 2005Arson/incendiarism13 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1999Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2006Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20160916-15
15 September 1998Smoking26 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in DeKalb 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 Hendrixville: 2 occurrences, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Taylor Branch HollowIronPast ProducerHematite
Black Warrior River Manganese Pros.ManganeseOccurrencePyrolusite, Wad
C W Chumley PropertyManganesePast Producer1951
Campbell Gap Manganese ProspectManganeseOccurrence

Every working recorded in DeKalb 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
Chumley (historical)0.3 miles20
Marcus (historical)1.8 miles20
Flanders2.6 miles20
Hendrickville (historical)3.4 miles21
Cotnam (historical)3.4 miles21
Rodentown3.7 miles22
Homer (historical)3.8 miles21
Liberty5.1 miles22

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 Q122597722The 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 150699. 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.