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Jacksons Lake, Alabama

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Elmore census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36054. It stands on Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Montgomery North quadrangle.

Jacksons Lake within Elmore County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 20 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 Jacksons Lake between 1994 and 2018, burning about 431 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 22 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 burning29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Arson/incendiarism22
Misuse of fire by a minor21
Equipment and vehicle use9
Recreation and ceremony7
Railroad operations and maintenance6
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
7 September 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use15 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1999Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2010Arson/incendiarism3.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1999Debris and open burning5.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1999Arson/incendiarism126 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Elmore County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 33 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 33 workings within 5 miles of Jacksons Lake: 28 producers, 4 past producers, 1 unknown. 28 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Titanium, Metal, Zirconium, Kyanite, REE, Titanium, Metal, Zirconium, Kyanite. 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
Alabama RiverSand and Gravel, Construction, Titanium, Metal, Zirconium, KyaniteProducerQuartz
Dixie Sand & Gravel - Maxwell PitSand and Gravel, Construction, Titanium, Metal, Zirconium, Kyanite, REEProducerQuartz
French Street Brick PlantFire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Browder PitClayProducer
Excelsior MineClayProducer
Gober Pit Jenkins Brick CompanyClayProducer
Jenkins Brick Co., Inc. PitClayProducer
Coosada Ferry PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerQuartz
Dixie Sand & Gravel Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Dozier PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Elmore 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
Prattville Junction1.5 miles20
Pine Brook Estates2.2 miles20
Millbrook2.6 miles20
Great Oaks2.6 miles20
Five Points3.1 miles20
Kingswood3.1 miles20
Rose Hill3.1 miles20
Coosada3.7 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 Q122545835The 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 137231. 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.