Minvale, Alabama

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 3 records

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

• Alabama Builders' Hardware Manufacturing Companylisted 1986 · 0.9 miles away
• Alabama Builder's Hardware Manufacturing Company Complex (Boundary Increase)listed 1992 · 0.9 miles away
• Fort Payne Opera Houselisted 1970 · 1.0 miles away

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.

• 1893 USGS Fort Payne quadrangle1:125000
• 1898 USGS Fort Payne quadrangle1:125000
• 1900 USGS Fort Payne quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
• 1946 USGS Fort Payne quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1946 USGS Ft Payne quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1947 USGS Ft Payne quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1955 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1961 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
• 1963 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
• 1981 USGS Rome quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 101 fires within 5 miles of Minvale between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,448 acres in total. None started naturally. 41 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Rawlingsville (historical)
• Fort Payne
• Douglas
• Wills Valley
• Blake
• Adamsburg

Every fire recorded in DeKalb County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Minvale: 8 past producers, 7 occurrences, 2 unknowns, 2 prospects. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Kaolin, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Fullers Earth. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in DeKalb County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 150382. 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.