Huntington Park, Alabama

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Birmingham census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35216. It stands on Little Shades Creek. The Survey maps it on the Birmingham South quadrangle.

Huntington Park within Jefferson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 26 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.

1890 USGS Bessemer quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Bessemer quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1905 USGS Bessemer Iron District quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1905 USGS Bessemer Special quadrangle1:48000
1907 USGS Bessemer Iron District quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1907 USGS Bessemer Special quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Birmingham South quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
1975 USGS Birmingham South quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Birmingham South quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1997 USGS Birmingham South quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

26 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Huntington Park between 1994 and 2016, burning about 435 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
Arson/incendiarism	11
Debris and open burning	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
5 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 1995	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
21 July 2006	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
30 June 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	1302 MORGAN RD, AL
29 June 2009	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	CO. RD 85 & WAGON RD, AL
16 June 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	65 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	CO RD 97, AL
23 April 2007	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson 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 Huntington Park: 2 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Perlite, Vermiculite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Irondale Plant	Vermiculite	Past Producer
W. R. Grace Irondale Plant	Perlite	Past Producer
Johnson Prospect	Iron	Prospect
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown

Every working recorded in Jefferson 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
Sky Ranch	0.4 miles	26
Woodmeadows	0.7 miles	26
Windover	0.8 miles	26
Patton Chapel	0.9 miles	26
Forest Ridge Estates	0.9 miles	26
Williamsburg	1.0 miles	26
Cedar Crest	1.0 miles	26
Chestnut Ridge	1.0 miles	26

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1700253. 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.