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Holiday Shores, Alabama

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Windham Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35475. It stands on Turkey Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lake Tuscaloosa North quadrangle.

Holiday Shores within Tuscaloosa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

Fires near this place

68 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Holiday Shores between 1994 and 2020, burning about 672 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 10 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 burning32
Recreation and ceremony11
Arson/incendiarism10
Natural6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
8 September 1999Debris and open burning6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2015Arson/incendiarism18 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNWR-20150907-002
5 September 2000Natural20 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2010Debris and open burning59 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2016Natural2.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160925-14
20 September 1997Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2014Natural14 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNWR-20140902-001
17 September 2003Arson/incendiarism10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tuscaloosa County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Holiday Shores: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Strip Pit No. 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Tuscaloosa 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
North Riviera0.5 miles18
North River Shores1.1 miles18
Lake Hills North1.7 miles18
North Haven1.9 miles18
Beacon Point2.2 miles18
Edwardian Place2.2 miles18
North River Country Club Estates2.3 miles18
Hagler Mill Estates2.4 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 148239. 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.