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Mount Meigs, Alabama

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Mount Meigs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36064. The Survey maps it on the Mount Meigs quadrangle. It stands 256 feet above sea level.

Mount Meigs within Montgomery County

On record in Mount Meigs

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

53 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Mount Meigs between 1994 and 2019, burning about 678 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 4 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 burning29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony4
Arson/incendiarism4
Natural2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Smoking1

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
5 September 2002Arson/incendiarism10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission1200 BLOCK OF WARES FERRY ROAD, AL
3 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2002Equipment and vehicle use10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190911-6
3 August 1995Debris and open burning6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 August 2011Natural35 acresAlabama Forestry Commission1616 ALEXANDER RD, AL
26 August 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montgomery County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Mount Meigs: 13 producers, 2 past producers. 13 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Chapman PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerQuartz
Deep South Construction Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
J.M. Jordon Mining Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Mount Meigs PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Mount Meigs PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Mount Meigs QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerQuartz
Mount Meigs QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerQuartz
Mt MeigisSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Oliver MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Rex Edwards PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Montgomery 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
Merry1.2 miles12
Timberlane1.5 miles12
Freeport1.8 miles12
Foxwood Trace2.0 miles12
Ranchette Estates2.0 miles13
Mount Meigs Station2.5 miles12
Eastwood Villa2.6 miles12
Knollwood2.8 miles12

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.

Wikipedia article on Mount MeigsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3475551The 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 123243. 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.