Townley, Alabama

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 1 record

• Boshell's Milllisted 1975

Surveyed buildings and structures 7 records

• Boshell Store, Walker County Road 124, Townleyfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• Boshell's Mill, Grist Mill, Bank of Lost Creek at State Route 124, South of U.S. 78, Townleyfederal building survey, 1 photograph
• Boshell's Mill, Lost Creek at Alabama Route 124, 1.7 miles South of Route 78, Townleyfederal building survey, 6 photographs
• Boshell's Mill, Saw Mill, Bank of Lost Creek at State Route 124, South of U.S. 78, Townleyfederal building survey, 7 photographs
• Boshell's Mill, Water Turbine, Across Lost Creek at State Route 124, South of U.S. 78, Townleyfederal building survey, 3 photographs
• Drummond Coal Company Cedrum Mine, 8750 Pit, County Road 124, Townleyfederal building survey, 9 photographs
• Drummond Coal Company Cedrum Mine, Crushing Facility, County Road 124, Townleyfederal building survey, 1 photograph

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.

• 1893 USGS Jasper quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
• 1949 USGS Townley quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1951 USGS Townley quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1953 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1956 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
• 1984 USGS Jasper quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 194 fires within 5 miles of Townley between 1994 and 2020, burning about 2,700 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 89 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Holly Grove
• Cedrum
• Hilliard
• New Jagger
• Pleasant Grove
• Saragossa

Every fire recorded in Walker County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Townley in 16 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 8 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 3 tornado. The reports record 7 deaths and 40 injuries. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

Every storm recorded in Walker County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 153711. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.