Old Town, Alabama

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 4 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• Fayette County Courthouse Districtlisted 1976 · 0.6 miles away
• Fayette County Courthouse Historic District (Boundary Increase)listed 2014 · 0.7 miles away
• Edward Rose Houselisted 1995 · 0.3 miles away
• John Clifford Grimsley Houselisted 2018 · 0.7 miles away

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.

• 1953 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1956 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Fayette quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1984 USGS Jasper quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 73 fires within 5 miles of Old Town between 1994 and 2020, burning about 475 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 23 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Fayette
• Cedar Hill
• Covin
• Mount Vernon
• Renfroe Valley
• Belk

Every fire recorded in Fayette County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Old Town: 6 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Fayette County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 137759. 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.