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Southgate, Alabama

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Headland-Newville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36345. The Survey maps it on the Headland quadrangle.

Southgate within Henry County

On record in Southgate

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 1 record

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

35 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Southgate between 1998 and 2020, burning about 203 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 was 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 burning14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
2 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionSER-20140902-001
14 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2020Debris and open burning20 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20200809-6
26 August 2000Natural14 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
2 August 2020Debris and open burning1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20200802-2
26 July 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20200726-1
6 June 2007Equipment and vehicle use42 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 June 2013Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionSER-20130605-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Henry County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Southgate: 8 unknowns, 1 occurrence, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Aluminum, Kaolin. 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
Harbison-Walker Refractories PitAluminum, KaolinPast Producer
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
Unnamed DepositIronOccurrence

Every working recorded in Henry 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
Headland0.9 miles7
Walden Pond Estates1.4 miles7
Blackwood4.5 miles8
Kirklands Crossroads5.5 miles8
Newville5.7 miles8
Grandberry Crossroads6.5 miles7
Tumbleton6.7 miles8
Hebron7.1 miles7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 147412. 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.