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Tanner Heights, Alabama

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Hartselle census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35640. It stands on Town Branch. The Survey maps it on the Hartselle quadrangle.

Tanner Heights within Morgan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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

82 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 82 fires within 5 miles of Tanner Heights between 1994 and 2020, burning about 436 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 burning30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Equipment and vehicle use9
Recreation and ceremony6
Arson/incendiarism6
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Smoking5
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Natural1
Fireworks1

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
7 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2018Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20180906-1
6 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2000Smoking1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160929-21
2 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morgan County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Tanner Heights: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Falkville QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Morgan 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
Hartselle1.5 miles19
Georgia2.2 miles19
Leesdale2.5 miles19
Valley View3.1 miles19
Mount Tabor3.7 miles20
Falkville3.9 miles20
Clemons Crossroad4.1 miles19
Lebanon4.1 miles20

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 Q122567323The 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 127666. 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.