South Sheffield, 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 8 records

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

• Ivy Greenlisted 1970 · 0.3 miles away
• William Winston Houselisted 1982 · 0.3 miles away
• Felix Grundy Norman Houselisted 1984 · 0.5 miles away
• St. John's Episcopal Churchlisted 2018 · 0.5 miles away
• Johnson's Woodslisted 1988 · 0.6 miles away
• Colbert County Courthouse Square Historic Districtlisted 1973 · 0.6 miles away
• Tuscumbia Historic Districtlisted 1985 · 0.6 miles away
• John Daniel Rather Houselisted 1982 · 0.9 miles away

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 Tuscumbia quadrangle1:48000
• 1924 USGS Tuscumbia quadrangle1:62500
• 1926 USGS Tuscumbia quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1936 USGS Tuscumbia quadrangle1:24000
• 1952 USGS Tuscumbia quadrangle1:24000
• 1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
• 1971 USGS Tuscumbia quadrangle1:24000
• 1986 USGS Tuscumbia quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 82 fires within 5 miles of South Sheffield between 1994 and 2019, burning about 388 acres in total. None started naturally. 22 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:

• Manor Haven
• Richmond Hills
• Tuscumbia
• Village Number 1
• Colonial Heights
• Furnace Hill (historical)

Every fire recorded in Colbert County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of South Sheffield: 1 producer, 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica, Aluminum. 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 Colbert 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 127139. 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.