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Killian Mill, Alabama

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Fort Payne census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35968. It stands on Little Wills Valley Branch. The Survey maps it on the Chavies quadrangle.

Killian Mill within DeKalb County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 21 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

94 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 94 fires within 5 miles of Killian Mill between 1995 and 2020, burning about 855 acres in total. None started naturally. 30 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 burning38
Arson/incendiarism30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
9 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190909-2
6 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190906-14
4 September 2016Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20160904-1
29 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190929-20
22 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20200922-2
19 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190919-32
17 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20180917-9
14 September 2010Arson/incendiarism20 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in DeKalb County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Killian Mill: 3 past producers, 3 occurrences, 2 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Fort Payne QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Pearsall QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Fort Payne AreaIronPast ProducerHematite
Fort Payne ProspectsIronProspect
Old Portersville MinesIronPast ProducerHematite
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence

Every working recorded in DeKalb 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
Willstown (historical)1.3 miles22
Collbran1.5 miles21
Lebanon1.6 miles22
Horton2.4 miles21
Hughes Mill2.4 miles21
Bootsville (historical)2.9 miles21
Pine Ridge3.7 miles21
Peeks Corner3.8 miles21

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 Q122571418The 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 156556. 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.