Spring Valley, Alabama

32 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Mobile census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36693. It stands on Spencer Branch. The Survey maps it on the Spring Hill quadrangle.

Spring Valley within Mobile County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 32 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.

1922 USGS Mobile quadrangle1:62500
1940 USGS Mobile quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1943 USGS Spring Hill quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
1944 USGS Mobile quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1953 USGS Mobile quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1953 USGS Spring Hill quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
1957 USGS Mobile quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Mobile quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Mobile quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Mobile quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Mobile quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1984 USGS Mobile quadrangle1:100000
1994 USGS Mobile quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

94 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 94 fires within 5 miles of Spring Valley between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,876 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 35 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
Arson/incendiarism	35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	33
Debris and open burning	19
Recreation and ceremony	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Natural	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
30 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	60 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	SWR-20150902-001
18 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
27 July 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
1 July 2006	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
1 July 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
1 July 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 June 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	TODD ACRES, AL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mobile County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Spring Valley: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Silica, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Halls Mill Pit	Silica	Producer	Unconsolidated Sediments
Halls Mill Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Harrison Pit	Clay	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Mobile 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
Sunset Ranch	0.2 miles	32
Belle Chene	0.6 miles	32
Crestview	1.0 miles	33
Burma Hills	1.1 miles	32
Lloyds	1.1 miles	33
Skyland Park Estates	1.2 miles	32
Canterbury Heights	1.3 miles	33
Cottage Hill	1.4 miles	32

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 143829. 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.