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Ladiga, Alabama

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Piedmont census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36272. It stands on Glade Branch. The Survey maps it on the Piedmont quadrangle.

Ladiga within Calhoun County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

Photographs

1 photograph,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Weaver House, 420 East Ladiga Street, Jacksonville, Calhoun County, AL
Weaver House, 420 East Ladiga Street, Jacksonville, Calhoun County, AL
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

277 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 277 fires within 5 miles of Ladiga between 1992 and 2020, burning about 9,274 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 144 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/incendiarism144
Debris and open burning82
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Recreation and ceremony10
Equipment and vehicle use7
Natural4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Smoking1

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 2007Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreNational Forests in AlabamaZONE ABC #2
7 September 2008Arson/incendiarism36 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionOFF HWY 278, AL
5 September 1997Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160904-4
4 September 1998Arson/incendiarism14 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1996Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Calhoun County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 49 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 49 workings within 5 miles of Ladiga: 16 unknowns, 11 occurrences, 11 prospects, 10 past producers. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Manganese, Aluminum, Cobalt, 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
DupontAluminum, Water, FreePast Producer1897
Harbour and Thompson ProspectsNickel, Cobalt, ManganeseOccurrence
Hughes DepositsManganese, CobaltPast ProducerWad
Stewart MineClayProducer
Stock PropertyManganese, StoneProspect1949
Cowan ProspectManganese, IronProspect1949
Hughes ProspectManganese, IronProspect1953
Harbour PropertyCobalt, ManganeseOccurrence
Thompson PropertyCobalt, ManganeseProspect
Toll Property,Goshen ValleyCobalt, ManganeseOccurrence

Every working recorded in Calhoun County

Storms near this place

1 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ladiga in 1 storm report in 2009: 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2009Thunderstorm WindLadiga$5,000A small portable metal shed was destroyed and blown across US-278 into the parking lot of a nearby gas station. A few trees were blown down, and a few homes suffered shingle damage.

Every storm recorded in Calhoun 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
Old Goshen Center (historical)0.8 miles17
Philadelphia1.8 miles17
Goshen (historical)2.0 miles17
Greenwood2.1 miles17
Piedmont2.3 miles17
Vigo2.5 miles17
Dailey (historical)2.8 miles17
Piedmont Springs5.8 miles16

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 Q122557033The 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 159905. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.