BlockBefore

Jordan Chapel, Alabama

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Folsom census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36280. It stands on Turpentine Still Branch. The Survey maps it on the Newell quadrangle.

Jordan Chapel within Randolph County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

167 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 167 fires within 5 miles of Jordan Chapel between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,338 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 35 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 burning73
Arson/incendiarism35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined33
Recreation and ceremony11
Natural5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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 2016Debris and open burning2.2 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160908-2
6 September 2010Debris and open burning21 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2016Debris and open burning3.8 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160905-4
4 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2018Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20180928-1
24 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190924-25
2 September 1995Recreation and ceremony2.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2019Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190919-30

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Randolph County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 70 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 70 workings within 5 miles of Jordan Chapel: 38 past producers, 23 prospects, 6 occurrences, 2 unknowns. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Mica, Gold, Copper, Sulfur, Copper. 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
Moss-Back MineCopper, GoldPast Producer1870
Old Woods Copper MineCopper, Zinc, Iron, SulfurPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Pyrrhotite, Sphalerite
Old Woods Cu MineCopper, Sulfur, ZincPast Producer
Ran 1 Clay ProspectFeldsparProspect
Stone Hill Cu Mine Et AlCopper, Iron, Sulfur, ZincPast Producer
Stone Hill MineCopper, Lead, ZincPast Producer1874
William Howle ProspectKyaniteProspect
Smith ProspectSulfur, CopperOccurrence
Stone Hill MineSulfur, CopperPast Producer1874
First Woods ProspectCopperUnknown1854

Every working recorded in Randolph 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
Cedron1.2 miles13
Morrison Crossroad2.1 miles12
Pine Tuckey2.5 miles13
Union2.6 miles12
Smyrna2.8 miles12
Folsom2.8 miles13
Newell3.8 miles12
Foster Crossroad3.9 miles13

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 Q122554022The 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 163583. 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.