Sunshine Village, Alabama

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Montgomery census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36117. The Survey maps it on the Willow Springs quadrangle.

Sunshine Village within Montgomery County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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.

1953 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Mount Meigs quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1975 USGS Mount Meigs NW quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1987 USGS Willow Springs quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

46 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Sunshine Village between 1994 and 2016, burning about 603 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 6 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	24
Arson/incendiarism	6
Recreation and ceremony	4
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Natural	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
19 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	834 CO RD 4, AL
15 September 2015	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	ECR-20150915-001
15 September 1999	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
7 August 1999	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 August 2007	Natural	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
4 August 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	OLD POND RD, AL
3 August 1995	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
24 August 1995	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montgomery County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Sunshine Village: 16 producers, 4 past producers. 16 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Titanium, Metal, Zirconium, Kyanite, Titanium, Metal, Zirconium, REE, Kyanite. 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
Deep South Const. Co Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction, Titanium, Metal, Zirconium, Kyanite	Producer	Quartz
Hodson Pit	Silica, Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Quartz
Jenkins Brick Co., Inc. Pit	Clay	Producer
Mitylene Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction, Titanium, Metal, Zirconium, REE, Kyanite	Producer	Quartz
Brannon Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Quartz
Cossada Ferry Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Deep South Construction Co. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Dredge Quarry	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Unconsolidated Sediments
Froggy Bottom Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Johnson Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Montgomery 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
Montgomery East	0.5 miles	13
Gunter Grove	1.0 miles	13
College Grove	1.1 miles	13
Johnstown East	1.2 miles	13
Eastmont	1.3 miles	13
Brassell Bottom	1.3 miles	13
Mountain View Estates	1.4 miles	13
Landmarks	1.4 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 142892. 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.