Sommerville, Alabama

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 12 of 13 shown

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• Fitch Houselisted 1987 · 0.5 miles away
• Carson Placelisted 1985 · 0.5 miles away
• Old Tuscaloosa County Jaillisted 1979 · 0.7 miles away
• First African Baptist Churchlisted 1988 · 0.8 miles away
• Wheeler Houselisted 1980 · 0.8 miles away
• Murphy-Collins Houselisted 1993 · 0.8 miles away
• Downtown Tuscaloosa Historic District (Boundary Increase II)listed 1997 · 0.9 miles away
• Battle-Friedman Houselisted 1972 · 0.9 miles away
• 1305 Greensboro Av.listed 1972 · 1.0 miles away
• Bama Theatre-City Hall Buildinglisted 1984 · 1.0 miles away
• Robert Jemison Servants' Houselisted 1990 · 1.0 miles away
• Sheppard Librarylisted 2021 · 0.2 miles away

Every listing in Tuscaloosa County

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.

• 1924 USGS Tuscaloosa quadrangle1:62500
• 1926 USGS Tuscaloosa quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1953 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1956 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
• 1971 USGS Tuscaloosa quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
• 1984 USGS Tuscaloosa quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Sommerville between 1994 and 2019, burning about 469 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 12 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• College Hills
• Country Club Gables
• Country Club Hills
• Hays Court
• Snow Terrace
• Dearing Place

Every fire recorded in Tuscaloosa County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Sommerville: 8 producers, 2 past producers. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Titanium, Metal, Zirconium, Kyanite, REE. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Tuscaloosa County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 148574. 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.