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Industrial City, Alabama

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Birmingham census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35023. The Survey maps it on the Bessemer quadrangle.

Industrial City within Jefferson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 24 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

120 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 120 fires within 5 miles of Industrial City between 1994 and 2019, burning about 740 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 47 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/incendiarism47
Debris and open burning44
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Recreation and ceremony4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Natural1

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
21 September 2019Arson/incendiarism25 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190921-23
18 September 1999Arson/incendiarism25 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 1996Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 August 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionETHERIDGE DR, AL
20 August 1995Debris and open burning16 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionNER-20120705-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Industrial City: 14 past producers, 3 occurrences, 2 unknowns, 1 producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. 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
Alpha Portland Cement Company PlantStonePlant
Dolonah QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
IronatonIronUnknown
IronatonIronUnknown
Sloss MinesIronPast ProducerHematite
Sloss No. 1 MineIronPast Producer
Sloss No. 2 MineIronPast Producer
T No. 2 MineIronPast Producer
T No. 3 MineIronPast Producer
T No. 4 MineIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

3 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Industrial City in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2022: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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
July 2016LightningIndustrial City1 hurtA person was struck by lightning and transported to a local hospital.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindIndustrial City$1,000Several trees were blown down on 11th Avenue, near Midfield.
June 2022Flash FloodIndustrial City-Widespread heavy rainfall and flooding across southern Jefferson County, mainly along and south of I-20 and along and east of I-65. Numerous roads flooded and impassable in the cities of Homewood, Vestavia Hills, Hoover, Downtown Birmingham and Mountain Brook. Village Creek At Avenue W in Birmingham rose above flood stage (10 Feet) at crested at 13 feet, causing major flooding in this area.

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Bush0.3 miles24
Brooklane Place0.5 miles24
Woodmont0.7 miles24
Vineland Park0.7 miles24
Hueytown0.9 miles24
Collins0.9 miles24
Avalon Park1.0 miles24
Harlem Heights1.1 miles24

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 Q122570326The 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 120676. 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.