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Old Blevins Mill, Alabama

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Ider census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35981. It stands on Highfield Branch. The Survey maps it on the Ider quadrangle.

Old Blevins Mill within DeKalb County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 21 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

216 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 216 fires within 5 miles of Old Blevins Mill between 1992 and 2019, burning about 5,340 acres in total. None started naturally. 87 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
Arson/incendiarism87
Missing data/not specified/undetermined66
Debris and open burning57
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 2005Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 1998Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1999Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2010Arson/incendiarism12 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2010Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1998Arson/incendiarism30 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in DeKalb County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 23 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of Old Blevins Mill: 10 prospects, 8 occurrences, 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Sulfur-Pyrite, Clay. 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
Jac 8 Clay ProspectClayProspect
Unnamed ProspectSulfur-PyriteProspect
J.C.Mcelroy ProspectIronOccurrence
UnnamedIronPast ProducerHematite
Unnamed MineIronPast Producer
Unnamed MineIronPast Producer
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence

Every working recorded in DeKalb 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
Gann Crossroad1.2 miles23
Beulah1.6 miles23
Cartersville2.0 miles23
Yorks Mill2.2 miles21
Ider3.1 miles21
Deer Head Cove3.5 miles23
Beaty Crossroads3.6 miles21
Sulphur Springs4.0 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 Q122598284The 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 156829. 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.