Meadow Lawn, Alabama

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Tuscaloosa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35401. It lies near Dalys Bottom. The Survey maps it on the Tuscaloosa quadrangle.

Meadow Lawn within Tuscaloosa County

On record in Meadow Lawn

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 within a mile 4 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Margaret Quayle Lustron Houselisted 2000 · 0.6 miles away
Jemison School-Drish Houselisted 2015 · 0.7 miles away
Kennedy-Foster Houselisted 2018 · 0.7 miles away
Robert Jemison Servants' Houselisted 1990 · 1.0 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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.

1924 USGS Tuscaloosa quadrangle1:62500
1926 USGS Tuscaloosa quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1953 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Tuscaloosa quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1984 USGS Tuscaloosa quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

50 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Meadow Lawn between 1995 and 2019, burning about 411 acres in total. None started naturally. 16 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/incendiarism	16
Debris and open burning	11
Railroad operations and maintenance	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Recreation and ceremony	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Other causes	1
Smoking	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
18 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2010	Smoking	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
31 August 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	4921 CUVER RD, AL
30 August 2011	Arson/incendiarism	8.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	42 CR 82, AL
3 August 2011	Arson/incendiarism	120 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	CR 29, AL
24 August 2007	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
13 August 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
27 July 2000	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tuscaloosa County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Meadow Lawn: 8 producers, 2 past producers. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Titanium, Metal, Zirconium, Kyanite, REE. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Airport Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction, Titanium, Metal, Zirconium, Kyanite, REE	Producer	Placer
American Mine	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Collins Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Crabtree Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Unconsolidated Sediments
Holley Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Unconsolidated Sediments
Holley Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
No. 2 Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Plant No. 2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Plant Operation	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
W.T. Ratliff Co., Inc. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Tuscaloosa 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Parkwood	0.1 miles	17
The Downs	0.3 miles	17
Rosedale Courts	0.3 miles	17
Rosedale	0.4 miles	17
Hillcrest	0.4 miles	17
Glendale Gardens	0.4 miles	17
Wood Manor	0.6 miles	17
Parkview	0.6 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 157835. 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.