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Seminole Heights, Alabama

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Dothan census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36312. It stands on Nalls Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ashford quadrangle.

Seminole Heights within Houston County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

47 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Seminole Heights between 1994 and 2020, burning about 338 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 6 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 burning21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Arson/incendiarism6
Smoking3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
3 September 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2019Debris and open burning20 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190923-15
2 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission55 COUNTY ROAD 963, AL
12 September 2000Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 2007Debris and open burning1.1 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
2 August 2007Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 July 2000Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Houston County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Seminole Heights: 6 occurrences, 5 unknowns, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Aluminum. 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
Harbison-Walker Refractories PitAluminumPast Producer
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
Unnamed DepositIronOccurrence
Unnamed DepositIronOccurrence
Unnamed DepositIronOccurrence
Unnamed DepositIronOccurrence

Every working recorded in Houston 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
Barber0.6 miles7
Pearce1.4 miles7
Webb2.2 miles7
Enon2.7 miles9
Sigma3.6 miles7
North Cowarts3.6 miles9
Ashford4.1 miles7
Pleasant Plains4.3 miles7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 132396. 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.