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Kings Chapel, Alabama

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Renfroe-Laniers census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35014. It stands on Laniers Branch. The Survey maps it on the Laniers quadrangle.

Kings Chapel within Talladega County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

500 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 500 fires within 5 miles of Kings Chapel between 1994 and 2019, burning about 10,281 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 198 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
Arson/incendiarism198
Debris and open burning171
Missing data/not specified/undetermined61
Recreation and ceremony39
Equipment and vehicle use11
Railroad operations and maintenance7
Natural6
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Smoking2
Other causes1

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 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190908-1
7 September 1997Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1999Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1995Debris and open burning10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1995Debris and open burning4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1995Recreation and ceremony10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined85 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190930-10

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Talladega 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 Kings Chapel: 6 unknowns, 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
Cook BedsIronPast ProducerResidual
Levi Sherrill PropertyIronPast ProducerResidual
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
W.E.Cook's MinesIronPast ProducerResidual

Every working recorded in Talladega 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
Grasmere1.0 miles21
Laniers1.0 miles21
Belle Vista1.3 miles21
East Bend1.8 miles21
Briarfield2.9 miles21
Feddisburg3.1 miles21
Cedar Cove Estates3.3 miles21
Ledbetter3.9 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 144871. 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.