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Mardisville, Alabama

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Sycamore-Winterboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35160. It stands on Jumpers Spring Branch. The Survey maps it on the Sleeping Giant quadrangle. It stands 509 feet above sea level.

Mardisville within Talladega County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

Fires near this place

349 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 349 fires within 5 miles of Mardisville between 1993 and 2020, burning about 3,325 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 109 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 burning117
Arson/incendiarism109
Missing data/not specified/undetermined46
Railroad operations and maintenance28
Recreation and ceremony25
Equipment and vehicle use7
Other causes5
Natural5
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Fireworks1
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 2002Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2002Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2002Arson/incendiarism20 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2002Natural20 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20200906-3
6 September 2019Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190906-9

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Talladega County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Mardisville: 4 past producers, 2 unknowns, 1 occurrence, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Aluminum, Talc-Soapstone. 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
Alpine MillTalc-SoapstonePlant
Parsons MineAluminum, IronPast Producer
Talladega ProspectAluminumOccurrence
Alpine Mountain ProspectIronUnknown
Carlton Limonite BankIronPast ProducerResidual
Reynold & Whiting Limonite BankIronPast ProducerResidual
UnnamedIronUnknown
Webb's BankIronPast ProducerResidual

Every working recorded in Talladega 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
Thornhill1.5 miles21
Allison Mills2.4 miles22
Barclay2.4 miles21
Bemiston2.7 miles22
Berneys2.9 miles22
Fair Park3.1 miles21
Reynolds Mill3.6 miles22
Nottingham3.7 miles22

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 MardisvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q19986939The 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 166157. 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.