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Lola City, Alabama

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Trussville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35173. It stands on Stinking Creek. The Survey maps it on the Leeds quadrangle.

Lola City within Jefferson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 27 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

88 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 88 fires within 5 miles of Lola City between 1994 and 2018, burning about 1,214 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 37 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/incendiarism37
Debris and open burning23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Recreation and ceremony7
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
7 September 1995Debris and open burning1.3 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1995Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1995Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2016Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160917-6
17 September 2003Smokingunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionSMITH-SIMS ROAD, AL
17 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Lola City: 11 past producers, 2 producers, 2 occurrences, 1 unknown. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Barium-Barite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Leeds Cement PlantStonePlant
Leeds Mine & QuarryClay, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
U.S. Steel Corp. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Industrial Sand Co. QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
J M Dorough MineBarium-BaritePast Producer
J.M. DoroughBarium-BaritePast ProducerResidual
Trussville PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Alfretta MinesIronPast Producer1903
Alfretta No 1 MineIronPast Producer
Alfretta No. 2 MineIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson 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
McCombs1.1 miles27
Lovick1.2 miles27
Queenstown1.5 miles27
Alton2.0 miles30
Scott City2.1 miles27
Trussville Manor2.2 miles27
Russell Heights2.5 miles27
Roper2.6 miles27

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 Q122544806The 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 121971. 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.