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Sawmill Town, Alabama

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Montevallo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35115. The Survey maps it on the Pea Ridge quadrangle.

Sawmill Town within Shelby County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

264 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 264 fires within 5 miles of Sawmill Town between 1994 and 2020, burning about 4,091 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 138 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/incendiarism138
Debris and open burning72
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Recreation and ceremony10
Natural5
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2003Arson/incendiarism24 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 2002Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1997Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1995Debris and open burning60 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1995Debris and open burning1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1994Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2000Arson/incendiarism10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shelby County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Sawmill Town: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper. 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
Alamag Copper Prospects No 2CopperOccurrence

Every working recorded in Shelby 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
Anita1.0 miles18
Gurnee1.0 miles18
Gurnee Junction1.5 miles18
Boothton1.6 miles18
Glen Carbon2.0 miles18
Aden2.2 miles18
Pea Ridge2.4 miles18
Superior2.9 miles18

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 Q122597618The 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 146559. 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.