Jordanville, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Tallassee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36078. It stands on Lewis Creek. The Survey maps it on the Tallassee quadrangle.

Jordanville within Elmore County

On record in Jordanville

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Tallassee Commercial Historic Districtlisted 1992 · 0.5 miles away
Tallassee Millslisted 2010 · 0.6 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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.

1906 USGS Dadeville quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Tallassee quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Opelika quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

132 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 132 fires within 5 miles of Jordanville between 1994 and 2019, burning about 1,153 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 27 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 burning	57
Arson/incendiarism	27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Recreation and ceremony	12
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Natural	4
Other causes	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
8 September 2017	Debris and open burning	35 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20170908-1
27 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	ECR-20120927-002
2 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	ECR-20120902-001
16 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	18 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 2002	Misuse of fire by a minor	2.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2002	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Elmore County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Jordanville: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Sharpe # 1	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Tallassee	0.5 miles	11
Hornsbytown	1.6 miles	11
Butts Mill	3.9 miles	11
Burlington (historical)	4.0 miles	11
Friendship	4.0 miles	11
Liberty	5.2 miles	11
Neman	5.6 miles	11
Kent	6.6 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 137235. 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.