Stonehedge Cliffs, Alabama

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Windham Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35475. The Survey maps it on the Lake Tuscaloosa South quadrangle.

Stonehedge Cliffs within Tuscaloosa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 18 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.

1926 USGS Samantha quadrangle1:48000
1928 USGS Samantha quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1953 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Lake Tuscaloosa South quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1984 USGS Tuscaloosa quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

59 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Stonehedge Cliffs between 1994 and 2020, burning about 465 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 11 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 burning	25
Arson/incendiarism	11
Recreation and ceremony	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Natural	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2

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
23 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	9.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190922-3
2 September 2014	Natural	14 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	NWR-20140902-001
2 September 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
30 August 1995	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
11 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	35 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tuscaloosa 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
Lakeview Manor	0.6 miles	18
Stonehedge	0.7 miles	18
Clearwater Estates	0.7 miles	18
High Cliff	0.7 miles	18
Chewalla	0.9 miles	18
Willow Point	0.9 miles	18
Bridgeview	0.9 miles	18
Four Winds	1.0 miles	18

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 Q122558631

The 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 148604. 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.