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Tredegar, Alabama

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Jacksonville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36265. It stands on Flat Tire Creek. The Survey maps it on the Jacksonville West quadrangle.

Tredegar within Calhoun County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

220 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 220 fires within 5 miles of Tredegar between 1994 and 2019, burning about 3,348 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 73 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
Arson/incendiarism73
Debris and open burning73
Recreation and ceremony26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Smoking6
Natural6
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Other causes1

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
8 September 1998Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1997Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1997Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2016Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160929-11
29 September 2000Natural20 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2016Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160928-7
25 September 2010Debris and open burning6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2019Arson/incendiarism65 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190922-2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Calhoun County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 57 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 57 workings within 5 miles of Tredegar: 19 past producers, 19 occurrences, 12 unknowns, 5 prospects. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Barium-Barite, Iron, Aluminum, Lead. 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
Mammoth ProspectSulfurProspect
Nesbitt Lake Manganese ProspectManganese, IronOccurrence1980
No NameIron, Barium-BaritePast ProducerResidual
Old Lead MineLead, Barium-Barite, Zinc, Limestone, GeneralPast Producer1860
QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Tom MooreLead, Barium-BaritePast Producer1916
Alabama Mineral Land Co. ProspectAluminum, KaolinProspect
Cedar Springs ProspectLead, Zinc, Barium-BariteOccurrence
Dixie PitClayProducer
Dothard ProspectAluminum, KaolinProspect

Every working recorded in Calhoun County

Storms near this place

4 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tredegar in 4 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2011Thunderstorm WindTredegar$500A tree was blown down and blocked Charlie Penny Road, west of Piedmont.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindTredegar$500A tree was blown down and blocked Littlejohn Road, near the Pleasant Valley Community northwest of Jacksonville.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindTredegar-Trees fell across Rocky Hollow Rd northwest of Jacksonville.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindTredegar-Numerous trees uprooted along Pleasant Valley Road. Damage to an agricultural building at Pleasant Valley High School.

Every storm recorded in Calhoun 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
Germania Springs (historical)1.0 miles17
Possum Trot1.7 miles17
Merrellton1.8 miles18
West Point2.0 miles17
Jacksonville2.8 miles17
Pleasant Valley (historical)2.8 miles17
Eastwood3.1 miles17
Betta-Life3.2 miles17

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 Q122594381The 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 157169. 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.

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.