Village Number 1, Alabama

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Tri-Cities census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35660. It stands on Spring Creek. The Survey maps it on the Tuscumbia quadrangle.

Village Number 1 within Colbert County

On record in Village Number 1

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 7 records

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

Nitrate Village No. 1 Historic Districtlisted 1984 · 0.3 miles away
Ivy Greenlisted 1970 · 0.6 miles away
Felix Grundy Norman Houselisted 1984 · 0.9 miles away
William Winston Houselisted 1982 · 1.0 miles away
Colbert County Courthouse Square Historic Districtlisted 1973 · 1.0 miles away
St. John's Episcopal Churchlisted 2018 · 1.0 miles away
Tuscumbia Landing Sitelisted 1982 · 0.7 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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.

1924 USGS Tuscumbia quadrangle1:48000
1924 USGS Tuscumbia quadrangle1:62500
1926 USGS Tuscumbia quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1936 USGS Tuscumbia quadrangle1:24000
1952 USGS Tuscumbia quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Tuscumbia quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Tuscumbia quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

86 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 86 fires within 5 miles of Village Number 1 between 1994 and 2019, burning about 440 acres in total. None started naturally. 21 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 burning	33
Arson/incendiarism	21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Recreation and ceremony	4
Smoking	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
6 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190919-8
18 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	24 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
4 August 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
30 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	CO RD 47 & 2, AL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Colbert County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Village Number 1: 1 producer, 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica, 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Colbert County Hwy. Dept. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	Lister Hill Reduction Plant	Silica, Aluminum	Plant

Every working recorded in Colbert 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Rivermont	0.5 miles	18
South Sheffield	0.8 miles	18
Oka Kapassa (historical)	0.8 miles	18
Richmond Hills	0.8 miles	18
Tuscumbia	1.0 miles	18
Loyall (historical)	1.1 miles	19
Manor Haven	1.1 miles	18
Furnace Hill (historical)	1.3 miles	19

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.

Wikipedia article on Village Number 1	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18359248	The 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 153850. 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.