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Mixson, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Victoria census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36351. It stands on Cardwell Creek. The Survey maps it on the New Brockton quadrangle.

Mixson within Coffee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

62 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Mixson between 1995 and 2020, burning about 414 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 6 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 burning23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Arson/incendiarism6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony5
Smoking4
Natural1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Other causes1

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
6 September 1999Debris and open burning2.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined21 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSER-20120927-001
21 September 2005Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSER-20120722-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coffee County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Mixson: 2 prospects, 1 occurrence, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Iron. 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
Cof 2 Clay ProspectClayProspect
Cof 3 Clay ProspectClayProspect
UnnamedIronUnknown
Unnamed DepositIronOccurrence

Every working recorded in Coffee 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
Tabernacle3.4 miles12
Victoria3.4 miles11
Arcus3.6 miles11
Lowry Mill5.1 miles11
Clintonville5.4 miles11
New Hope5.6 miles11
Richburg6.3 miles11
Java6.5 miles11

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 Q122542977The 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 135380. 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.