Mount Carmel, Alabama

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Bridgeport census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35740. It lies near Doran Cove. The Survey maps it on the Doran Cove quadrangle.

Mount Carmel within Jackson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 23 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.

1886 USGS Stevenson quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Stevenson quadrangle1:125000
1895 USGS Stevenson quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1936 USGS Doran Cove quadrangle1:24000
1950 USGS Doran Cove 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
1967 USGS Doran Cove quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1981 USGS Chickamauga quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

59 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Mount Carmel between 1994 and 2019, burning about 1,096 acres in total. None started naturally. 20 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 burning	25
Arson/incendiarism	20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Equipment and vehicle use	2
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
8 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190929-1
22 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190922-15
17 September 1998	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1998	Smoking	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1998	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	12 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Mount Carmel: 1 past producer, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Iron, Silica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	(Facility) Bridgeport Jv Smelter	Iron, Silica	Plant
	Thomas and Associates	Limestone, General	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Jackson 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
Cumberland Junction	0.6 miles	23
Widows Creek Station	1.1 miles	23
Coopers Mill	1.5 miles	23
Bolivar	1.6 miles	23
Summer Bluff	1.6 miles	23
Rocky Springs	1.9 miles	23
Browns Valley (historical)	2.0 miles	23
Montague	2.6 miles	23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 123162. 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.