Ridgeville, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Forest Home census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36030. The Survey maps it on the Ridgeville quadrangle.

Ridgeville within Butler County

On record in Ridgeville

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

Surveyed buildings and structures 2 records

T. Augustus (Gus) Womack House, County Road 54, Greenvillefederal building survey, 1 photograph
Womack-Crenshaw Plantation, County Road 54, Greenvillefederal building survey, 20 photographs

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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.

1953 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Ridgeville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

37 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Ridgeville between 1994 and 2015, burning about 668 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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 burning	17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Arson/incendiarism	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Recreation and ceremony	2
Smoking	2
Natural	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
16 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	80 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	RIDGE RD, AL
18 August 2000	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
3 June 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
11 June 2011	Natural	100 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	RIDGE RD, AL
3 May 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	44 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
14 May 2013	Arson/incendiarism	30 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	SER-20130514-003
1 May 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	23 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	SER-20120501-002
7 April 2011	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	MONTREY RD, AL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Butler County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Ridgeville: 3 unknowns. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown

Every working recorded in Butler 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Monterey	2.7 miles	7
Mount Moriah	3.2 miles	7
Forest Home	4.3 miles	7
Manningham	5.7 miles	8
Saucer	7.1 miles	7
Butler Springs	8.6 miles	7
Fort Dale	10.0 miles	8
Liberty	10.1 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 154090. 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.