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Thornhill, Alabama

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Sycamore-Winterboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35160. It stands on Town Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sleeping Giant quadrangle.

Thornhill within Talladega County

On record in Thornhill

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

Fires near this place

385 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 385 fires within 5 miles of Thornhill between 1993 and 2020, burning about 3,602 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 124 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 burning126
Arson/incendiarism124
Missing data/not specified/undetermined50
Recreation and ceremony28
Railroad operations and maintenance27
Equipment and vehicle use11
Natural6
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Other causes4
Smoking2
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
9 September 2002Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2007Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2002Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2002Arson/incendiarism20 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2002Natural20 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20200906-3

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Talladega 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 Thornhill: 5 unknowns, 4 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Aluminum. 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
Parsons MineAluminum, IronPast Producer
Talladega ProspectAluminumOccurrence
Alpine Mountain ProspectIronUnknown
Carlton Limonite BankIronPast ProducerResidual
Lawson Limonite BanksIronPast ProducerResidual
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
Webb's BankIronPast ProducerResidual

Every working recorded in Talladega 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
Bemiston1.3 miles22
Mardisville1.5 miles21
Allison Mills1.5 miles22
Barclay1.9 miles21
Fair Park2.8 miles21
Pulliamville3.0 miles22
Talladega3.1 miles22
McCannsville3.3 miles22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 145014. 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.