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McCalla, Alabama

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Birmingham census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35111. It stands on Cox Spring Branch. The Survey maps it on the McCalla quadrangle. 12,965 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 509 feet above sea level.

McCalla within Jefferson County

On record in McCalla

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Surveyed buildings and structures 2 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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

182 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 182 fires within 5 miles of McCalla between 1994 and 2019, burning about 1,835 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 81 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/incendiarism81
Debris and open burning53
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Recreation and ceremony13
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking3
Natural2

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 1995Smokingunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2019Debris and open burning80 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190906-5
6 September 1995Arson/incendiarism72 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1995Debris and open burning14 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2000Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1995Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama 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 37 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 37 workings within 5 miles of McCalla: 24 occurrences, 9 past producers, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Clay, Manganese, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Dolonah QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Mine No. 53Fire Clay (Refractory)Producer
R C Coleman ProspectIron, ManganeseOccurrence
Bessemer MineClayProducer
Bessemer PitClayProducer
No NameIronPast ProducerHematite
O A Griffin ProspectIronOccurrence
Potter MineIronPast Producer
Potter No. 1 MineIronPast Producer
Raimund MineIronPast ProducerHematite

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
Red Hill Heights0.6 miles20
Flint Hill0.6 miles20
Hickory Grove0.9 miles24
Pleasant Hill1.6 miles24
Rockdale1.9 miles24
Pine Crest2.1 miles24
Loveless Park2.4 miles24
Mobile Junction2.4 miles24

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 McCallaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3292729The 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 122460. 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.