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Meadowview Estates, Alabama

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Trussville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35173. It stands on Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Argo quadrangle.

Meadowview Estates within Jefferson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 27 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

121 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 121 fires within 5 miles of Meadowview Estates between 1994 and 2019, burning about 1,169 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 43 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 burning49
Arson/incendiarism43
Recreation and ceremony7
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Smoking2
Natural2
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
8 September 1998Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1998Arson/incendiarism10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2016Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160927-9
21 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1998Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 August 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 August 1995Debris and open burning5.5 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 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Meadowview Estates: 14 occurrences, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, 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
Industrial Sand Co. QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Trussville PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
D P Anderson ProspectIronOccurrence
J O Norris ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence

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
Argo1.0 miles27
Cotton Ridge1.0 miles27
West Ridge1.8 miles27
Rolling Hills2.0 miles27
Saddlewood2.2 miles27
Candlewood Lakes2.8 miles27
Breakstone Village2.9 miles27
Southern Acres2.9 miles27

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1700572. 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.