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Shoal Run, Alabama

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Alabaster-Helena census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35242. It stands on Jeb Branch. The Survey maps it on the Cahaba Heights quadrangle.

Shoal Run within Shelby County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 22 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

83 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 83 fires within 5 miles of Shoal Run between 1994 and 2020, burning about 857 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 23 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 burning25
Arson/incendiarism23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Recreation and ceremony7
Natural4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
8 September 1999Natural220 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1995Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1995Debris and open burning16 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 1999Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 1999Arson/incendiarism6.0 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

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Shoal Run: 2 past producers, 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Perlite, Vermiculite. 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
Irondale PlantVermiculitePast Producer
W. R. Grace Irondale PlantPerlitePast Producer
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown

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
Little Ridge Estates0.6 miles22
Morning Sun Villas1.2 miles22
Lake Purdy1.2 miles22
Eagle Point1.4 miles22
Meadowbrook1.5 miles22
Brook Highland1.5 miles22
Inverness Cliffs1.7 miles22
Inverness2.1 miles22

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 Q122597141The 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 154319. 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.