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Lakeview Shores, Alabama

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Scottsboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35769. The Survey maps it on the Langston quadrangle.

Lakeview Shores within Jackson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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

71 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Lakeview Shores between 1995 and 2020, burning about 500 acres in total. None started naturally. 18 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 burning26
Arson/incendiarism18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Other causes1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 1998Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1998Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190923-10
23 September 2019Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190923-1
20 September 2019Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190920-19
20 September 2016Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160920-1
15 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Lakeview Shores: 1 producer, 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Aluminum. 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
Scottsboro Alum. Reduction PlantAluminumPlant1945
Scottsboro Mine QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Jackson 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
Roseberry1.7 miles21
Section3.1 miles21
Ferncliff (historical)3.3 miles21
Sauta (historical)4.1 miles20
Webb Addition4.2 miles21
Hodge4.3 miles21
Scottsboro4.3 miles21
New Hope4.5 miles20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 148789. 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.