Shiloh, Alabama

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Ashland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36266. It stands on Buck Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lineville East quadrangle.

Shiloh within Clay County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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.

1891 USGS Ashland quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1953 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Lineville East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1978 USGS La Grange quadrangle1:100000

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 Shiloh between 1994 and 2019, burning about 1,581 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 51 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	54
Arson/incendiarism	51
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	21
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Recreation and ceremony	9
Railroad operations and maintenance	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Natural	1
Smoking	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
8 September 2006	Debris and open burning	23 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1998	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1994	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	40 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160928-37
20 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	TYSON RD, AL
13 September 2019	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190913-11
12 September 1997	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 Clay County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Shiloh: 10 prospects, 6 past producers, 5 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Mica, Arsenic, Zinc. 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	Recorded
Dawkins Prospect	Zinc, Arsenic, Copper, Lead	Prospect
Grizzel Prospect	Gold, Garnet	Occurrence	Gold
J D Crarter Prospect	Arsenic, Lead	Prospect
Old Copper Mine Prospect	Copper, Arsenic, Lead	Prospect
Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Suggs Beryl Prospect	Beryllium, Mica	Occurrence
Unnamed Prospect	Zinc, Copper, Lead	Prospect
Unnamed Prospect	Zinc, Lead, Arsenic	Prospect
W M Sharps Mine	Iron	Past Producer
Farrar-Wallace Mine	Zinc, Arsenic, Lead	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Clay 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
Midway	2.7 miles	12
Lineville	3.7 miles	12
Cragford	4.1 miles	12
Berwick	4.4 miles	12
Corinth	4.7 miles	12
Gibsonville	4.7 miles	11
Ashland	4.7 miles	12
Mellow Valley	4.9 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 151074. 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.