Highland Park, Alabama

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Tri-Cities census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35661. The Survey maps it on the Tuscumbia quadrangle.

Highland Park within Colbert County

On record in Highland Park

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Florence, Alabama Music Enterprises (FAME) Recording Studioslisted 2016 · 0.8 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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.

1924 USGS Tuscumbia quadrangle1:48000
1924 USGS Tuscumbia quadrangle1:62500
1926 USGS Tuscumbia quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1936 USGS Tuscumbia quadrangle1:24000
1952 USGS Tuscumbia quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Tuscumbia quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Tuscumbia quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

79 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 79 fires within 5 miles of Highland Park between 1994 and 2020, burning about 460 acres in total. None started naturally. 11 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 burning	35
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Arson/incendiarism	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Smoking	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 2011	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	673 CR 72, AL
18 September 2010	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	24 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
4 August 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Colbert County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Highland Park: 1 producer, 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica, Aluminum. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Colbert County Hwy. Dept. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	Lister Hill Reduction Plant	Silica, Aluminum	Plant

Every working recorded in Colbert 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Muscle Shoals	0.8 miles	18
East Haven	1.1 miles	18
Norala Junction	1.1 miles	18
Trenholm Heights	1.5 miles	18
Colonial Heights	1.5 miles	18
Woodlawn Heights	1.5 miles	19
Manor Haven	1.6 miles	18
Washington Park	1.7 miles	19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 146244. 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.