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Minor Terrace, Alabama

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Childersburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35044. It stands on Griffin Branch. The Survey maps it on the Childersburg quadrangle.

Minor Terrace within Talladega County

On record in Minor Terrace

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 1 record

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 19 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

249 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 249 fires within 5 miles of Minor Terrace between 1994 and 2020, burning about 5,022 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 71 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 burning99
Arson/incendiarism71
Missing data/not specified/undetermined35
Recreation and ceremony18
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Equipment and vehicle use7
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Natural4
Fireworks2
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
9 September 2002Arson/incendiarism80 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2002Debris and open burning10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2007Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190927-6
25 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2010Arson/incendiarism8.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2007Debris and open burning4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2000Debris and open burning35 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Talladega County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 25 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 25 workings within 5 miles of Minor Terrace: 19 unknowns, 3 past producers, 1 prospect, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Manganese, Aluminum, 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
Butler Estate MineIron, ManganesePast Producer
Childersburg QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Kymulga ProspectAluminumOccurrence
ChildsburgIronUnknown
Cliett ProspectIronProspect
Singleton DepositsIronPast ProducerResidual
Singleton Limonite DepositIronPast ProducerResidual
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown

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
Coosa Court0.6 miles19
Childersburg0.6 miles19
Grove Park0.8 miles19
Bon Air0.8 miles19
Pinewood Terrace1.3 miles19
Forest Hills1.8 miles19
Indian Hill1.8 miles19
Boaz Corner2.5 miles19

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.

Wikidata item Q122538939The 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 122880. 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.