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Reynolds Mill, Alabama

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Renfroe-Laniers census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35014. The Survey maps it on the Winterboro quadrangle.

Reynolds Mill within Talladega County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 22 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

430 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 430 fires within 5 miles of Reynolds Mill between 1994 and 2020, burning about 6,502 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 139 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
Debris and open burning171
Arson/incendiarism139
Missing data/not specified/undetermined43
Recreation and ceremony35
Railroad operations and maintenance20
Equipment and vehicle use11
Natural6
Other causes4
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
8 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2002Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2019Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190906-9
6 September 2019Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190906-17
5 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190905-14
5 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Talladega 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 Reynolds Mill: 9 past producers, 7 unknowns, 6 occurrences, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Talc-Soapstone, Aluminum. 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
Talladega ProspectAluminumOccurrence
Alpine MillTalc-SoapstonePlant
Northern DepositTalc-SoapstoneUnknown
Robinson ProspectTalc-SoapstoneOccurrence
Southern Deposit of Winterboro MineTalc-SoapstoneUnknown
W W Holmes Prospect ATalc-SoapstoneOccurrence
W W Holmes Prospect BTalc-SoapstoneOccurrence
Alpine Mountain ProspectIronUnknown
Carlton Limonite BankIronPast ProducerResidual
Cook BedsIronPast ProducerResidual

Every working recorded in Talladega 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
Nottingham0.6 miles22
Kingston1.2 miles22
Alpine1.3 miles22
Plantersville1.5 miles22
Reubenville1.5 miles22
Ledbetter2.4 miles21
Winterboro2.5 miles22
Berneys3.6 miles22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156958. 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.