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Stemley Cove, Alabama

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Pell City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35128. The Survey maps it on the Riverside quadrangle.

Stemley Cove within St. Clair County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 24 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

344 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 344 fires within 5 miles of Stemley Cove between 1994 and 2020, burning about 3,846 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 105 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 burning150
Arson/incendiarism105
Recreation and ceremony41
Missing data/not specified/undetermined33
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Natural2

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
9 September 2002Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 1998Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1998Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2010Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2006Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2016Debris and open burning12 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160928-24

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Clair 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 Stemley Cove: 7 unknowns, 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Clay. 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
Riverside PitClayProducer
No NameIronPast ProducerResidual
Norman MountainIronUnknown
T.I. & S. Co. MineIronPast ProducerResidual
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown

Every working recorded in St. Clair 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
Logan Martin Lake Estates0.4 miles24
Enchanted Hills0.8 miles24
Fairview Heights1.6 miles21
Mays Bend1.6 miles24
Harmon1.8 miles21
Riveria Estates2.5 miles21
Cropwell2.6 miles21
Rock Inn Estates2.8 miles21

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 Q122568998The 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 165206. 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.