Old Nauvoo, Alabama
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Russellville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35585. It stands on Quinn Branch. The Survey maps it on the Guinn Cross Roads quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1936 USGS Guinn Cross Roads quadrangle1:24000
- 1946 USGS Guinn Cross Roads quadrangle1:24000
- 1947 USGS Guinn Cross Roads quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
- 1980 USGS Haleyville quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
58 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Old Nauvoo between 1997 and 2017, burning about 736 acres in total. None started naturally. 41 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/incendiarism | 41 |
| Debris and open burning | 8 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Smoking | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 15 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 17 September 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 14 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 6.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 31 August 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 50 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 31 August 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 31 August 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 7.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 August 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 20 August 2008 | Arson/incendiarism | 19 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | COUNTY ROAD 37, AL |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 69 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 69 workings within 5 miles of Old Nauvoo: 52 unknowns, 16 occurrences, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blackburn Mine | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Blacklidge Tract | Iron | Occurrence | ||
| Burrows Tract | Iron | Occurrence | ||
| Hargett Tract | Iron | Occurrence | ||
| J H Taylor Tract No. 2 | Iron | Occurrence | ||
| J H Taylor Tract No. 3 | Iron | Occurrence | ||
| Leon Taylor Tract | Iron | Occurrence | ||
| Nelson | Iron | Unknown | ||
| Sandlin Tract | Iron | Occurrence | ||
| Sloss Number 15 | Iron | Unknown |
Storms near this place
1 since 2019Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Old Nauvoo in 1 storm report in 2019: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Old Nauvoo | - | NWS representatives assessed several reports of damage between Belgreen along Highway 24 northward to the Colbert County line as well as from Little Bear Creek Lake northward to Hwy 24. The damage noted in this location was very sporadic and included a few snapped hardwood or softwood trees spread out over 2-3 miles. |After investigating, several of these trees were dead or already weakened from termite damage, and only 3-4 of them over the span of the areas investigated were healthy foliage. No tree damage was noted at Cedar Creek Lake, so this was concluded to be the end of the damage found. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Guinn Cross Roads | 2.5 miles | 12 | |
| Dempsey | 2.6 miles | 12 | |
| Glasgow Corner | 3.3 miles | 14 | |
| Piney Bend | 3.3 miles | 12 | |
| Belgreen | 3.6 miles | 14 | |
| Jordans Mill | 4.1 miles | 11 | |
| Burntout | 5.1 miles | 11 | |
| Old Burleson | 6.4 miles | 11 |
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 Q122573266 | The 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 156836. 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.







