Pull Tight, 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 5 records

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

• Eleventh Street Schoollisted 1984 · 0.7 miles away
• Charles Gunn Houselisted 1993 · 0.7 miles away
• Forrest Cemetery Chapel and Comfort Stationlisted 1992 · 0.9 miles away
• U.S. Post Officelisted 1976 · 1.0 miles away
• Noojin House and Bellevue-Mineral Springs Hotel Sitelisted 2023 · 0.5 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.

• 1885 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:125000
• 1888 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:125000
• 1892 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:125000
• 1895 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:125000
• 1903 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
• 1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1959 USGS Gadsden West quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
• 1984 USGS Guntersville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 96 fires within 5 miles of Pull Tight (historical) between 1995 and 2020, burning about 1,892 acres in total. None started naturally. 54 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:

• Agricola
• Bellevue
• Black Creek Falls (historical)
• Monte Vista
• Scenic Heights
• The Highlands

Every fire recorded in Etowah County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of Pull Tight (historical): 12 past producers, 8 occurrences, 2 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Kaolin, Aluminum, Sulfur, 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 Etowah 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 149110. 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.