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Littleton, Alabama

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Mountainboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35952. It lies near Little Sand Valley. The Survey maps it on the Howelton quadrangle.

Littleton within Etowah County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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

187 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 187 fires within 5 miles of Littleton between 1997 and 2019, burning about 1,924 acres in total. None started naturally. 110 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/incendiarism110
Debris and open burning57
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Recreation and ceremony5
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Smoking1
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
7 September 2019Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190907-7
7 September 2016Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160907-9
7 September 2010Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2010Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2016Arson/incendiarism15 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160927-6
26 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Etowah County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Littleton: 6 prospects, 5 occurrences, 4 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Carroll QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerChert
Osborn Pit No 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Osborn Pit Number 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Attalla Iron Ore Prospect No 1IronOccurrence
Attalla Iron Ore Prospect No 2IronOccurrence
Attalla Iron Ore Prospect No 3IronOccurrence
Iron Prospect 1IronProspect
Iron Prospect 2IronProspect
Iron Prospect 3IronProspect
Iron Prospect 6IronProspect

Every working recorded in Etowah County

Storms near this place

6 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Littleton in 6 storm reports between 2010 and 2021: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 hail. 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
June 2010LightningLittleton$2,000A lightning strike caused a shed fire, on Littleton Road north of Attalla.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindLittleton$1,000Trees were blown down on Littleton Road, north of Attala.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindLittleton-Several trees uprooted and power lines downed near the intersection of Buster Willet Road and Duck Springs Road.
January 2020Thunderstorm WindLittleton-Several trees uprooted along Highway 431.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindLittleton-Several trees uprooted north of the city of Gadsden.
April 2017HailLittleton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Etowah 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
Egypt1.3 miles19
Noble Hill1.7 miles22
Ridgeville1.8 miles22
Rockledge1.9 miles22
Benson (historical)1.9 miles19
Norton2.0 miles22
Ivalee2.3 miles19
Brans Chapel2.7 miles22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 121921. 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.