Shawtown, Alabama

19 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. The Survey maps it on the Woodstock quadrangle.

Shawtown within Bibb County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

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
1980 USGS Woodstock quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Tuscaloosa quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

240 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 240 fires within 5 miles of Shawtown between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,830 acres in total. None started naturally. 81 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 burning	98
Arson/incendiarism	81
Recreation and ceremony	24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Smoking	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	5
Equipment and vehicle use	2

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
9 September 1995	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1996	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	1.2 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 1994	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 1994	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bibb County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 29 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 29 workings within 5 miles of Shawtown: 18 unknowns, 10 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Woodstock Quarry	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Bush	Iron	Unknown
Dago Hollow	Iron	Unknown
Greeley	Iron	Unknown
Hayes	Iron	Unknown
Shamblin	Iron	Unknown
Sloss	Iron	Unknown
Standiford	Iron	Unknown
Townsend	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown

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
Burmah (historical)	1.3 miles	19
McGrawtown	1.7 miles	18
Big Springs (historical)	1.8 miles	19
Lowerytown	1.8 miles	18
Richtown	2.0 miles	18
West Blocton	2.0 miles	20
Banks	2.1 miles	19
Smith Hill	2.9 miles	19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1959578. 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.