Rock Creek, Alabama

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Cherokee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35653. It stands on Denton Creek. The Survey maps it on the Pleasant Grove quadrangle.

Rock Creek within Colbert County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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.

1925 USGS Barton quadrangle1:62500
1926 USGS Barton quadrangle1:48000
1929 USGS Barton quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1936 USGS Pleasant Grove quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Pleasant Grove quadrangle1:24000, 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

73 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 73 fires within 5 miles of Rock Creek between 1994 and 2020, burning about 966 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 32 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
Arson/incendiarism	32
Debris and open burning	21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Recreation and ceremony	5
Equipment and vehicle use	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
8 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	6.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	3.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
4 August 2005	Debris and open burning	30 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
29 August 2000	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
23 August 2006	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
13 August 2004	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
12 August 2007	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Colbert County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Rock Creek: 6 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
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown

Every working recorded in Colbert 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
Denton (historical)	2.6 miles	19
Little Zion (historical)	3.4 miles	19
Newsome Springs	3.6 miles	20
Hub (historical)	3.7 miles	19
Crooked Oak	6.3 miles	19
Sand Lick (historical)	6.5 miles	19
New Bethel	7.4 miles	19
Red Rock	7.5 miles	19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156977. 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.