Lawley, Alabama

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Chelsea census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35176. It stands on Buckhorn Branch. The Survey maps it on the Cooks Springs quadrangle.

Lawley within Shelby 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.

1889 USGS Springville quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Springville quadrangle1:125000, 7 printings
1953 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Cooks Springs quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1975 USGS Cooks Springs quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Birmingham North quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

184 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 184 fires within 5 miles of Lawley between 1994 and 2020, burning about 4,165 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 42 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 burning	80
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	43
Arson/incendiarism	42
Recreation and ceremony	11
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Natural	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Smoking	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	20 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190905-10
29 September 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2016	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160924-19
24 September 2010	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 1997	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shelby County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Lawley: 2 unknowns, 1 past producer. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
No Name Given	Iron	Past Producer	Residual
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown

Every working recorded in Shelby 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Sterrett	4.0 miles	22
Vandiver	4.1 miles	21
Cloverdale	4.7 miles	22
Dunnavant	5.2 miles	21
Calcis	5.2 miles	22
Winburn	5.3 miles	27
Vincent	8.3 miles	22
Arkwright	9.3 miles	21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156586. 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.