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Rock Spring, Alabama

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Gadsden census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35905. The Survey maps it on the Glencoe quadrangle.

Rock Spring within Etowah County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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

141 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 141 fires within 5 miles of Rock Spring between 1994 and 2020, burning about 2,489 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 50 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/incendiarism50
Debris and open burning44
Missing data/not specified/undetermined32
Recreation and ceremony6
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural2
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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
9 September 2019Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190909-3
8 September 1998Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1998Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1998Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1995Debris and open burning35 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1998Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2010Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2019Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190919-22

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Etowah County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 33 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 33 workings within 5 miles of Rock Spring: 13 unknowns, 11 past producers, 4 prospects, 4 occurrences. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Barium-Barite, Manganese, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
C B Allen AreaGraphitePast Producer1865, 1917
Unnamed QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerQuartz
Whorton Bend PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Grady NortonManganesePast Producer1917
John T Hagen ProspectBarium-BariteOccurrence
Milt Phillips ProspectBarium-BariteProspect
N E Miller ProspectBarium-BariteOccurrence
Norton DepositManganesePast ProducerSurface
Pryor Mine/Norton Deposit/Davis GapIron, ManganesePast ProducerHematite
Laney MineIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Etowah 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
Keysburg0.7 miles18
Colvin1.1 miles18
Cobb City1.4 miles18
Nisbit (historical)1.5 miles18
Glencoe1.8 miles18
Pine Grove2.0 miles18
Smiths Crossroads2.6 miles18
Burns Park3.7 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 155219. 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.