Talley, Alabama

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Section census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35771. It stands on Stringer Creek. The Survey maps it on the Dutton quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Talley within Jackson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 21 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.

1886 USGS Stevenson quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Stevenson quadrangle1:125000
1895 USGS Stevenson quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1936 USGS Dutton quadrangle1:24000
1947 USGS Dutton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1950 USGS Dutton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Chickamauga quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

111 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 111 fires within 5 miles of Talley (historical) between 1995 and 2020, burning about 1,533 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 30 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	38
Arson/incendiarism	30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25
Recreation and ceremony	9
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
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
8 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2016	Debris and open burning	4.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160906-12
6 September 2010	Debris and open burning	18 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2016	Debris and open burning	1.2 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160930-17
30 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160903-3
28 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160928-38

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Talley (historical): 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. None of them 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Jac 9a Clay Prospect	Clay	Prospect
	Shelley Thomas Prospect	Iron	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Jackson 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
Macedonia	1.0 miles	20
Hancock Crossroads	1.2 miles	21
Rock City	1.9 miles	21
Hannah (historical)	2.2 miles	21
Davistown	2.5 miles	20
Bellview	3.1 miles	21
Crossroad	3.8 miles	20
Duncan Crossroads	3.9 miles	21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 139299. 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.