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Northside Acres, Alabama

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Huntsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35806. It lies near Drake Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Jeff quadrangle.

Northside Acres within Madison County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 23 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

30 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Northside Acres between 1997 and 2016, burning about 80 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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 burning8
Arson/incendiarism8
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use2

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
7 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNOR-20120922-001
19 September 2000Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2000Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2000Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 July 2001Misuse of fire by a minor35 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison 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 Northside Acres: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Huntsville North QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Madison 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
Cedar Valley2.0 miles24
Cedargate2.2 miles24
Lincoya2.3 miles24
Stag Run2.5 miles24
Endsley Acres2.5 miles23
Valley Park2.7 miles24
Cherry Creek2.7 miles24
Greenbriar2.9 miles23

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 Q122561293The 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 156804. 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.