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Kewahatchie, Alabama

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Columbiana census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35143. The Survey maps it on the Shelby quadrangle.

Kewahatchie within Shelby County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

213 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 213 fires within 5 miles of Kewahatchie between 1994 and 2020, burning about 4,012 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 80 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 burning87
Arson/incendiarism80
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Recreation and ceremony8
Natural4
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
6 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190906-13
6 September 2006Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2019Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190926-1
2 September 2019Smoking15 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190902-1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shelby County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Kewahatchie: 7 unknowns, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Manganese. 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
Shelby MineIron, ManganesePast Producer1849
Chain Gang PitIronUnknown
Kingdom AreaIronUnknown
Shelby PitIronUnknown
Shelby Pit/Kingdom AreaIronPast ProducerResidual
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown

Every working recorded in Shelby 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
Mostellers2.1 miles17
Dogwood Point2.1 miles17
Merrell Beach2.2 miles17
Shelby2.3 miles17
Spring Creek2.5 miles17
Kingdom Crossroads2.9 miles16
Pine Grove Village3.4 miles17
Paradise Point Estates3.6 miles25

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 Q122555952The 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 156553. 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.