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Hortons Mill, Alabama

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Clarence census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35121. It stands on Sand Valley Creek. The Survey maps it on the Clarence quadrangle.

Hortons Mill within Blount County

On record in Hortons Mill

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.

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 22 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

122 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 122 fires within 5 miles of Hortons Mill between 1994 and 2019, burning about 1,508 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 17 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 burning50
Missing data/not specified/undetermined32
Arson/incendiarism17
Equipment and vehicle use7
Recreation and ceremony6
Smoking5
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Natural1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Fireworks1
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 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2018Debris and open burning4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20180907-2
6 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2010Arson/incendiarism10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2016Smoking3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160921-4
20 September 2003Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission1535 STARNES CHAPEL RD, AL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Blount County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 45 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 45 workings within 5 miles of Hortons Mill: 15 occurrences, 10 past producers, 9 prospects, 9 unknowns. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Flagstone, Manganese, Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates. 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
Blo 4 Clay ProspectClayProspect
Champion MinesIron, Manganese, Phosphorus-PhosphatesPast Producer1885, 1945
Brown QuarryFlagstonePast Producer
Lamb QuarryFlagstoneProducer
Oneoneta QuarryFlagstoneProducer
Unnamed ProspectManganeseOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectManganeseOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectManganeseOccurrence
Blount CountyIronPast Producer
Champion MinesIronPast ProducerResidual

Every working recorded in Blount County

Storms near this place

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hortons Mill in 2 storm reports between 2009 and 2010: 2 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
November 2010Thunderstorm WindHortons Mill$5,000A trees was blown down onto a mobile home, on Towns Road.
October 2009Thunderstorm WindHortons Mill$1,000Two trees were blown down near the Hortons Mill community, north of Oneonta.

Every storm recorded in Blount 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
Hendrix2.0 miles22
Hoods Crossroads2.0 miles20
Murphree2.2 miles20
Bird (historical)3.4 miles22
Fridays Crossing3.6 miles22
Rosa3.7 miles21
Taits Gap4.0 miles20
Oneonta4.4 miles20

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 Q122589960The 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 135109. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.