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Webster Chapel, Alabama

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Alexandria-Webster Chapel census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36265. It stands on Coffee Creek. The Survey maps it on the Colvin Gap quadrangle.

Webster Chapel within Calhoun County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

Fires near this place

192 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 192 fires within 5 miles of Webster Chapel between 1994 and 2020, burning about 3,817 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 64 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 burning67
Arson/incendiarism64
Missing data/not specified/undetermined37
Recreation and ceremony12
Smoking4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Natural2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
9 September 2019Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190909-3
8 September 1998Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1998Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1998Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1998Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1998Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2010Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2007Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Calhoun County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 43 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 43 workings within 5 miles of Webster Chapel: 14 unknowns, 13 past producers, 9 occurrences, 7 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Barium-Barite, Sulfur, Manganese. 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
Grady NortonManganesePast Producer1917
Mammoth ProspectSulfurProspect
Unnamed ProspectLead, ZincOccurrence
A A Williams MineBarium-BaritePast Producer
A. A. WilliamsBarium-BaritePast ProducerResidual
Albert Taylor ProspectBarium-BariteProspect
Bertha Mineral Co Willingham Or GoryBarium-BaritePast ProducerResidual
Bertha Mineral Company MineBarium-BaritePast Producer
Egbert & Isaac Clark ProspectBarium-BariteOccurrence
Evans Barite MineBarium-BaritePast Producer1919

Every working 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
Millie (historical)0.1 miles18
Mount Gilead (historical)2.2 miles18
New Liberty2.2 miles18
Colvins Gap2.6 miles18
Laney2.7 miles18
Mount Polk3.3 miles17
Irene (historical)3.5 miles18
Mink (historical)3.5 miles18

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 Q122551065The 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 153912. 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.