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Marble Valley, Alabama

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Weogufka-Marble Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35151. The Survey maps it on the Talladega Springs quadrangle. It stands 518 feet above sea level.

Marble Valley within Coosa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 25 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

89 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 89 fires within 5 miles of Marble Valley between 1994 and 2020, burning about 2,173 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 25 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 burning26
Arson/incendiarism25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use10
Recreation and ceremony7
Natural6
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
6 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2016Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160927-2
25 September 2010Debris and open burning8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2010Debris and open burning48 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use55 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined60 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190919-6
17 September 2010Arson/incendiarism45 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coosa County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Marble Valley: 5 unknowns, 4 past producers, 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Gold, Manganese, Marble, Dimension. 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
A and B MineBarium-BariteProducer
Eureka White Marble Co. QuarryMarble, DimensionPast Producer
No NameIron, ManganesePast ProducerResidual
Stewart MineGoldPast ProducerVein
Stewart's Au Mine Parson's MineGoldPast ProducerVein
Stewart's MineGoldUnknown
Sulphur Springs MountainIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown

Every working recorded in Coosa 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
Blue Springs2.5 miles25
Aucheucaula (historical)3.5 miles17
Strickland Crossroads3.7 miles25
Hidden Valley4.4 miles13
Gold Branch4.8 miles13
Sehoya4.8 miles13
Unity5.6 miles24
Quinsey6.5 miles13

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.

Wikipedia article on Marble ValleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18389137The 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 156656. 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.