Scottsville, Alabama

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the West Blocton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35184. It stands on Hill Creek. The Survey maps it on the West Blocton West quadrangle.

Scottsville within Bibb 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.

1899 USGS Brookwood quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1934 USGS Blocton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1934 USGS Blocton quadrangle1:48000
1940 USGS Blocton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS West Blocton West quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Tuscaloosa quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

155 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 155 fires within 5 miles of Scottsville between 1994 and 2019, burning about 1,207 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 60 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	60
Debris and open burning	33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	21
Recreation and ceremony	17
Smoking	10
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
7 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2008	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	COUNTY RD 30-VERNONTOWN, AL
25 September 1999	Smoking	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190924-9
23 September 1999	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	NWR-20130917-002

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bibb County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Scottsville: 4 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Manganese, Iron, Clay. 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
Coosa River Clay Pit	Clay	Producer
Hogan B Lewis Prospect No. 1	Manganese	Occurrence
Hogan B Lewis Prospect No. 3	Manganese	Occurrence
Unnamed Prospect	Iron	Occurrence
Unnamed Prospect	Iron	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Bibb 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
Vernontown	1.6 miles	18
Moffat	1.6 miles	18
Eoline	3.1 miles	11
Pleasant Hill	3.2 miles	11
McCulley Creek	3.7 miles	18
Stewart Settlement	3.8 miles	20
Harmon	3.9 miles	20
Braehead (historical)	4.2 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 138401. 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.