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Old Coloma, Alabama

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Centre census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36272. It lies near Coloma Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Ellisville quadrangle.

Old Coloma within Cherokee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

316 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 316 fires within 5 miles of Old Coloma between 1994 and 2020, burning about 11,430 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 195 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/incendiarism195
Debris and open burning67
Missing data/not specified/undetermined38
Equipment and vehicle use9
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Natural1
Fireworks1

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
9 September 2016Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160909-7
8 September 2016Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160908-11
6 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined134 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160906-13
6 September 1998Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190905-13
4 September 1998Arson/incendiarism14 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1998Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1998Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cherokee County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 32 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 32 workings within 5 miles of Old Coloma: 10 prospects, 9 occurrences, 7 unknowns, 6 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Aluminum, Iron, Manganese, Cobalt, Manganese. 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
DupontAluminum, Water, FreePast Producer1897
Gilley Fluorspar DepositFluorine-FluoritePast Producer1900
Harbour and Thompson ProspectsNickel, Cobalt, ManganeseOccurrence
Johnson ProspectAluminum, KaolinProspect
Harbour PropertyCobalt, ManganeseOccurrence
Thompson PropertyCobalt, ManganeseProspect
Toll Property,Goshen ValleyCobalt, ManganeseOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectCobalt, ManganeseOccurrence
Davis PropertyManganeseOccurrence1949
E.A. Jones ProspectManganeseOccurrence

Every working recorded in Cherokee 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
Mona (historical)0.9 miles18
Pope2.2 miles18
Ellisville2.4 miles18
Frog Mountain2.4 miles18
Sanford Springs2.5 miles18
Coloma (historical)3.2 miles18
Gnatville3.9 miles16
Exie3.9 miles18

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 Q122539654The 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 156831. 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.