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Isabella, Alabama

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Isabella-Pletcher census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36750. It stands on Sandy Branch. The Survey maps it on the Maplesville East quadrangle. It stands 456 feet above sea level.

Isabella within Chilton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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 Isabella between 1994 and 2020, burning about 921 acres in total. None started naturally. 20 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 burning52
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Arson/incendiarism20
Recreation and ceremony9
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking3

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
29 September 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1995Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2020Debris and open burning4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20200809-7
6 August 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chilton County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Isabella: 8 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Aluminum, Copper, Iron, Arsenic, Iron. 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
B. T. Childers ProspectArsenic, Copper, GoldOccurrence1929
B.T. Childer's ProspectGold, Copper, Iron, ArsenicOccurrenceChalcopyrite, Gold, Pyrite
Honeycutt's Mill Placer MineGold, IronPast Producer1842, 1892
Pierce PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
EufaulaAluminumUnknownResidual
EufaulaAluminumPast ProducerGibbsite
B. T. Childer ProspectGoldPast ProducerVein
Franklin MineGoldPast Producer
Honeycutt's Mill PlacerGoldPast Producer
Mulberry Creek PlacerGoldPast ProducerPlacer

Every working recorded in Chilton 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
New Convert2.7 miles15
Fairview5.1 miles14
Hubbard5.1 miles15
Maplesville5.3 miles15
Campbell5.5 miles15
Pleasant Grove6.5 miles15
Highland6.5 miles14
Pools Crossroads6.6 miles17

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.

Wikipedia article on IsabellaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18352230The 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 151863. 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.