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Macedonia, Alabama

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Ranburne census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36273. The Survey maps it on the Bowdon West quadrangle.

Macedonia within Cleburne County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

138 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 138 fires within 5 miles of Macedonia between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,388 acres in total. 1 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 burning53
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Recreation and ceremony9
Equipment and vehicle use6
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Natural1
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
9 September 2016Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160909-18
8 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNER-20140908-001
8 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1995Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2016Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160905-8
5 September 2008Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionCO RD 659, AL
30 September 2016Arson/incendiarism33 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160930-24
30 September 1993Debris and open burning1.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cleburne 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 Macedonia: 11 past producers, 4 occurrences, 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Copper. 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
Trickem Copper AnomolyCopperOccurrence1964
Ballinger ProspectGoldOccurrence
Bennifield ProspectGoldOccurrenceGold
Bennifield ProspectGoldProspect
Crumpton ProspectGoldOccurrence
Head MineGoldPast ProducerGold
Head MineGoldProspect
Hicks-Wise MineGoldPast ProducerGold
Hicks-Wise MineGoldPast Producer
Lee MineGoldPast ProducerGold

Every working recorded in Cleburne 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
Trickem2.6 miles14
Union Hill2.7 miles14
Lecta3.4 miles14
Hightower3.4 miles14
Hopewell3.8 miles15
Ranburne4.0 miles16
Abernathy5.4 miles15
Bell Mills6.1 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156646. 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.