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Turner Chapel, Alabama

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Athens census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35611. The Survey maps it on the Ripley quadrangle.

Turner Chapel within Limestone County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

74 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Turner Chapel between 1994 and 2020, burning about 578 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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 burning38
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Equipment and vehicle use9
Arson/incendiarism5
Recreation and ceremony5
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
25 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNOR-20140925-003
24 September 2005Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2018Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20180922-6
22 September 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160922-11
20 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190920-5
2 September 2006Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use200 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Limestone 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 Turner Chapel: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Phosphorus-Phosphates. 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
Gilbert MinePhosphorus-PhosphatesProducer

Every working recorded in Limestone 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
Green Hills0.8 miles15
Reid1.0 miles15
Batts Heights1.7 miles22
Farmview2.0 miles15
Vestavia Estates2.1 miles15
Blackburn2.5 miles15
Campbell2.5 miles22
Glenn Valley2.5 miles15

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 Q122542112The 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 138701. 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.