Nellie, Alabama

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Coy-Fatama census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36435. It sits by Black Bluff. The Survey maps it on the Coy quadrangle.

Nellie within Wilcox County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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.

1953 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Coy quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Monroeville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

66 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 66 fires within 5 miles of Nellie between 1994 and 2020, burning about 407 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 1 was 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	26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Natural	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Fireworks	1
Smoking	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
3 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2000	Natural	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2019	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190917-12
12 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	SWR-20150912-001
11 September 1997	Debris and open burning	2.9 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
30 August 1997	Natural	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
23 August 2000	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
1 August 2014	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	SWR-20140801-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wilcox County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Nellie: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Zirconium, Kyanite, Titanium, Metal. 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
	Alabama River Gravel-Wilcox Co	Sand and Gravel, Construction, Zirconium, Kyanite, Titanium, Metal	Producer	Placer

Every working recorded in Wilcox 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
Dry Forks	0.9 miles	8
Asahel	3.1 miles	7
Pebble Hill	3.3 miles	8
Coal Bluff	4.2 miles	7
Bellview	4.2 miles	8
Coy	4.3 miles	7
Sheppard	5.2 miles	7
Yellow Bluff	6.4 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156772. 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.