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Old Goshen Center, Alabama

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Piedmont census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36272. It stands on Glade Branch. The Survey maps it on the Piedmont quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Old Goshen Center within Calhoun County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

244 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 244 fires within 5 miles of Old Goshen Center (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 8,264 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 138 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/incendiarism138
Debris and open burning57
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Recreation and ceremony7
Equipment and vehicle use7
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Natural2
Smoking1

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 2007Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreNational Forests in AlabamaZONE ABC #2
7 September 2008Arson/incendiarism36 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionOFF HWY 278, AL
6 September 1998Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1997Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160904-4
4 September 1998Arson/incendiarism14 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Calhoun County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 57 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 57 workings within 5 miles of Old Goshen Center (historical): 19 unknowns, 14 past producers, 12 prospects, 11 occurrences. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Manganese, Aluminum, 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
Harbour and Thompson ProspectsNickel, Cobalt, ManganeseOccurrence
Hughes ProspectManganese, IronProspect1953
Johnson ProspectAluminum, KaolinProspect
R. Stockdale PropertyCobalt, Iron, ManganesePast Producer
Stewart MineClayProducer
Stock PropertyManganese, StoneProspect1949
Hughes DepositsManganese, CobaltPast ProducerWad
Pope-Hughes ProspectManganese, CobaltPast Producer
Harbour PropertyCobalt, ManganeseOccurrence

Every working 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
Ladiga0.8 miles17
Philadelphia1.7 miles17
Goshen (historical)2.4 miles17
Greenwood2.7 miles17
Vigo2.9 miles17
Dailey (historical)2.9 miles17
Piedmont3.1 miles17
Piedmont Springs6.6 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 162875. 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.