Volanta, 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 within a mile 12 records

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

• Whittier Halllisted 1985 · 0.7 miles away
• Carl L. Bloxham Buildinglisted 1988 · 0.7 miles away
• US Post Officelisted 1988 · 0.7 miles away
• Bank of Fairhopelisted 1988 · 0.8 miles away
• Gaston Buildinglisted 1988 · 0.8 miles away
• White Avenue Historic Districtlisted 1988 · 1.0 miles away
• Fairhope Downtown Historic Districtlisted 2006 · 0.7 miles away
• Fairhope Bayfront Districtlisted 1988 · 0.8 miles away
• Axil Johnson Houselisted 1997 · 0.8 miles away
• School of Organic Educationlisted 1988 · 0.8 miles away
• Golf, Gun & Country Clublisted 1988 · 0.9 miles away
• Beckner Houselisted 1988 · 0.9 miles away

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.

• 1921 USGS Fairhope quadrangle1:62500
• 1939 USGS Daphne quadrangle1:31680
• 1941 USGS Daphne quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
• 1941 USGS Fairhope quadrangle1:62500
• 1943 USGS Fairhope quadrangle1:62500
• 1944 USGS Fairhope quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1953 USGS Daphne quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
• 1957 USGS Pensacola quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1959 USGS Pensacola quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Pensacola quadrangle1:250000
• 1981 USGS Bay Minette quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Volanta between 1995 and 2018, burning about 277 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 11 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:

• Magnolia Beach
• Seacliff
• Battles Wharf
• Fairhope
• Loyola Villa
• Montrose

Every fire recorded in Baldwin County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Volanta: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Baldwin 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 128477. 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.