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Unity, Alabama

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Weogufka-Marble Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35183. It stands on McCutchen Branch. The Survey maps it on the Weogufka quadrangle.

Unity within Coosa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 24 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

100 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 100 fires within 5 miles of Unity between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,784 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 46 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/incendiarism46
Debris and open burning27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Recreation and ceremony6
Natural5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
6 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2010Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2010Arson/incendiarism45 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2010Arson/incendiarism32 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 1998Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 2006Natural6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 August 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 August 2007Natural10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coosa County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Unity: 4 occurrences, 2 past producers, 2 prospects, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Graphite, Uranium. 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
Unnamed OccurrenceUranium, GraphiteOccurrence1974
Teel PropertyGraphiteOccurrence
Hatchet Creek PlacerGoldOccurrencePlacer
Hatchet Creek PlacerGoldProspect
Stewart MineGoldPast ProducerVein
Stewart's Au Mine Parson's MineGoldPast ProducerVein
Stewart's MineGoldUnknown
Weoguffka Creek PlacerGoldProspect
Weogufka Creek PlacerGoldOccurrencePlacer

Every working recorded in Coosa 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
Gold Branch1.7 miles13
Weogufka2.6 miles24
Weogufka (historical)4.2 miles14
Strickland Crossroads4.2 miles25
Moriah5.0 miles14
Hillwood5.5 miles14
Marble Valley5.6 miles25
Bentleyville6.2 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 128356. 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.