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North Dadeville, Alabama

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Dadeville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36853. The Survey maps it on the Dadeville quadrangle.

North Dadeville within Tallapoosa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

207 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 207 fires within 5 miles of North Dadeville between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,145 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 51 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 burning95
Arson/incendiarism51
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Recreation and ceremony10
Equipment and vehicle use8
Natural4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Smoking2
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 2019Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190908-7
8 September 2002Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2010Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2002Equipment and vehicle use15 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
31 August 2019Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190831-2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tallapoosa County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of North Dadeville: 6 past producers, 4 occurrences, 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Mica, Talc-Soapstone. 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
Perry Wise-Sanders ProspectTalc-SoapstoneOccurrenceTalc
W.B.Railey Asbestos ProspectTalc-SoapstoneProspect
Collum DepositMicaProspect
Collum MineMicaPast Producer
Collum-Taylor MineMicaPast Producer
W W Hicks MineMicaPast Producer
Al King MineGoldPast ProducerVein
Alabama King MineGoldPast ProducerVein
Bonner-Terrell MineGoldPast ProducerGold
Franklin MineGoldOccurrenceGold

Every working recorded in Tallapoosa 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
Dadeville1.9 miles12
Jacksons Gap2.9 miles11
Piney Point4.7 miles12
Greenbriar4.9 miles12
Sessions5.2 miles11
Easton5.4 miles11
Midway5.5 miles11
Ozella (historical)5.5 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.

Wikidata item Q122548167The 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 156802. 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.