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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.

Mountain Creek within Chilton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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

315 since 1994

Regional 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 burning125
Missing data/not specified/undetermined81
Arson/incendiarism52
Equipment and vehicle use20
Recreation and ceremony16
Smoking9
Natural5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Railroad operations and maintenance2
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
8 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2002Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined13 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionECR-20140906-001
5 September 1995Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2002Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1995Recreation and ceremony3.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2003Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chilton County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 27 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bama Or Flaketown MineGraphite, MicaPast ProducerGraphite, Muscovite, Roscoelite
Bama Graphite MineGraphitePast Producer
Rocky Creek PlacerGoldPast ProducerPlacer
Rocky Creek PlacerGoldPast Producer
Rocky Creek Placer MineGoldPast Producer1872
Unnamed Gold Placer ProspectGoldOccurrenceGold
William Howard PropertyGoldOccurrenceGold
Bama PitIronUnknown
BoothIronUnknown
Boyd PitIronPast ProducerSurface

Every working recorded in Chilton County

Storms near this place

2 since 2011

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2011Thunderstorm WindMountain Creek$3,000Trees and power lines were blown down, and a shed was blown down, on CR-23.
September 2019Thunderstorm WindMountain Creek-A few trees uprooted along County Road 23.

Every storm recorded in Chilton 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
Midway1.1 miles15
Verbena3.2 miles17
Cooper5.7 miles15
Enterprise7.6 miles17
Falakto8.9 miles15
Samaria11.0 miles14
Highland11.8 miles14
Clanton11.9 miles14

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.