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Old Davisville, Alabama

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Choccolocco census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36207. It stands on Corn House Creek. The Survey maps it on the Choccolocco quadrangle.

Old Davisville within Calhoun County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 19 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

208 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 208 fires within 5 miles of Old Davisville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,665 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 89 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/incendiarism89
Debris and open burning55
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Equipment and vehicle use13
Railroad operations and maintenance12
Natural10
Recreation and ceremony6
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
5 September 1995Debris and open burning10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2019Naturalunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190930-16
28 September 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreNational Forests in AlabamaTRAILHEAD
28 September 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreNational Forests in Alabamanot named
26 September 1999Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160915-13

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Calhoun 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 Davisville: 10 unknowns, 7 past producers, 4 producers, 1 occurrence. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Arsenic, Lead. 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
C H Mitchell MineArsenic, LeadPast Producer
Hudson ProspectAluminumOccurrence
Norton No.2 PropertyManganeseProspect1942
Austin PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Bennett PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Cobb PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Cobb PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hewitt Limonite BankIronPast ProducerResidual
Iron City MinesIronPast ProducerGoethite, Magnetite
Pentegrass Or Dunn BedsIronPast ProducerResidual

Every working recorded in Calhoun County

Storms near this place

3 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Old Davisville in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2017: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2008Tornado (EF1)Old Davisville$10,000One home was significantly damaged by a brief tornado touched down in the Sugar Valley subdivision, just off Old Downing Mill Road, in southeastern Calhoun County. This tornado was associated with the remnants of Tropical Storm Fay.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindOld Davisville$2,000A few trees were blown down at several locations in the eastern portion of Calhoun County.
September 2017Thunderstorm WindOld Davisville-Several trees uprooted and fell onto a mobile home.

Every storm recorded in Calhoun 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
Iron City1.4 miles19
Choccolocco2.6 miles19
Harmony3.2 miles19
Joseph Springs3.4 miles19
Tooktocaugee (historical)3.8 miles19
Pleasant Ridge4.8 miles19
Holly Springs5.1 miles19
White5.1 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 Q122592168The 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 160299. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.