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Lakewood, Alabama

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Fort Payne census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35967. It stands on Allen Branch. The Survey maps it on the Dugout Valley quadrangle.

Lakewood within DeKalb County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 22 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

120 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 120 fires within 5 miles of Lakewood between 1993 and 2019, burning about 1,452 acres in total. None started naturally. 54 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/incendiarism54
Debris and open burning33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony2
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
28 September 1998Arson/incendiarism30 acresLittle River Canyon National PreserveDUNNROAD
26 September 1999Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190924-11
21 September 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160921-2
19 September 2019Debris and open burning4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190919-16
18 September 1997Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1999Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1999Smoking12 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 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Lakewood: 7 occurrences, 4 past producers, 3 prospects, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Aluminum, Kaolin, Clay. 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
Consolidated #2Aluminum, Water, FreePast ProducerSurface
Ladd MineClay, Fullers EarthPast Producer
Browder MineKaolinPast Producer
Dek 4 Clay ProspectClayProspect
Dek 5 Clay ProspectClayProspect
New Ladd MineKaolinPast Producer
Unnamed ProspectAluminumOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectAluminumOccurrence
Allen ProspectIronOccurrence
Jesse Manning 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
Cordell (historical)2.3 miles22
Lake Howard3.1 miles22
Alpine3.2 miles22
Wills Valley3.5 miles23
Fisher Crossroads3.5 miles23
Rawlingsville (historical)4.0 miles23
Minvale4.4 miles23
Blake4.6 miles22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156576. 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.