Ridgway Mill, Alabama

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Salem census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35614. It lies near Hickory Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Union Hill quadrangle.

Ridgway Mill within Limestone County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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.

1936 USGS Union Hill quadrangle1:24000
1948 USGS Union Hill quadrangle1:24000
1951 USGS Union Hill 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
1986 USGS Tuscumbia quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

46 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Ridgway Mill between 1994 and 2019, burning about 239 acres in total. None started naturally. 12 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	20
Arson/incendiarism	12
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
Smoking	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Other causes	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
8 September 2005	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2018	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20180904-4
4 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2004	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 2016	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160902-3
14 September 1999	Misuse of fire by a minor	10 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
30 August 2011	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	MONDAY ROAD, AL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Limestone 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
Good Springs	0.8 miles	14
Cherry Grove	1.6 miles	14
Mount Rozell	2.8 miles	14
Union Hill	2.9 miles	14
Scarce Grease	4.0 miles	14
Salem	4.1 miles	15
Lester	4.3 miles	14
Pleasant Grove	4.8 miles	15

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 Q122598089

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 156968. 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.