Mountain Creek, Alabama
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Verbena census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36051. The Survey maps it on the Marbury quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 15 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1901 USGS Wetumpka quadrangle1:125000
- 1903 USGS Wetumpka quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Elmore quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Clanton quadrangle1:100000
- 1987 USGS Clanton quadrangle1:100000
- 1987 USGS Marbury quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
315 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 315 fires within 5 miles of Mountain Creek between 1994 and 2019, burning about 1,677 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 52 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 | 125 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 81 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 52 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 20 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 16 |
| Smoking | 9 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Other causes | 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 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 September 2002 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 13 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | ECR-20140906-001 |
| 5 September 1995 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 September 2002 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 September 1995 | Recreation and ceremony | 3.5 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 2003 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 27 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 27 workings within 5 miles of Mountain Creek: 15 unknowns, 10 past producers, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Gold, Graphite, Mica. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bama Or Flaketown Mine | Graphite, Mica | Past Producer | Graphite, Muscovite, Roscoelite | |
| Bama Graphite Mine | Graphite | Past Producer | ||
| Rocky Creek Placer | Gold | Past Producer | Placer | |
| Rocky Creek Placer | Gold | Past Producer | ||
| Rocky Creek Placer Mine | Gold | Past Producer | 1872 | |
| Unnamed Gold Placer Prospect | Gold | Occurrence | Gold | |
| William Howard Property | Gold | Occurrence | Gold | |
| Bama Pit | Iron | Unknown | ||
| Booth | Iron | Unknown | ||
| Boyd Pit | Iron | Past Producer | Surface |
Storms near this place
2 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mountain Creek in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2019: 2 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mountain Creek | $3,000 | Trees and power lines were blown down, and a shed was blown down, on CR-23. |
| September 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Mountain Creek | - | A few trees uprooted along County Road 23. |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 152547. 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.








