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Newsome Springs, Alabama

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Littleville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35674. It lies near Sanderson Cove. The Survey maps it on the Barton quadrangle.

Newsome Springs within Colbert County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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

61 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Newsome Springs between 1994 and 2020, burning about 716 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 18 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 burning24
Arson/incendiarism18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Recreation and ceremony7
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural2
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
21 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1998Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2000Arson/incendiarism3.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 2005Debris and open burning30 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 2000Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 August 1999Natural3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 July 2006Natural7.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 June 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20160616-3

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Colbert 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 Newsome Springs: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
UnnamedIronUnknown

Every working recorded in Colbert 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
Little Zion (historical)2.0 miles19
Rock Creek3.6 miles19
Mountain Mills (historical)3.9 miles20
Red Rock4.1 miles19
Hub (historical)4.9 miles19
Denton (historical)5.3 miles19
Hawk Pride6.0 miles19
New Bethel6.0 miles19

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.

Wikidata item Q122560000The 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 166024. 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.