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West End Anniston, Alabama

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Anniston census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36201. It lies near Washer Hill. The Survey maps it on the Anniston quadrangle.

West End Anniston within Calhoun County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 19 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

143 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 143 fires within 5 miles of West End Anniston between 1994 and 2020, burning about 5,585 acres in total. 1 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 burning40
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Equipment and vehicle use18
Recreation and ceremony10
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Smoking2
Natural1

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
3 September 2002Arson/incendiarism20 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2016Equipment and vehicle use800 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160925-18
22 September 2016Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160922-14
18 September 1998Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1997Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 1998Debris and open burning1.0 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 54 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 54 workings within 5 miles of West End Anniston: 28 unknowns, 16 past producers, 7 prospects, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Aluminum, Kaolin, Clay. 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
Anniston PitsIron, ManganesePast Producer1875
Glencoe QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Not Known, Ammiston AreaManganese, IronPast ProducerResidual
Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Shirey Prospect No 2MicaProspect
Shirey Prospect No. 2MicaProspect
Donoho MineClayProducer
Lackey PitClayProducer
Unnamed MineClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Calhoun County

Storms near this place

3 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West End Anniston in 3 storm reports between 2010 and 2025: 2 flash flood, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2025Flash FloodWest End Anniston-Instances of flooding in the Oxford area with submerged vehicles, closed roadways, and at least two water rescues.
January 2013Flash FloodWest End Anniston-Many intersections along 10th St were flooded and impassable. One water rescue was reported with no injuries.
May 2010HailWest End Anniston-no account filed

Every storm 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
Cobb Town0.9 miles19
Mechanicsville1.0 miles19
Wellborn1.0 miles19
Wayside1.4 miles19
Letchers1.5 miles19
Oxanna1.6 miles19
Cane Creek1.8 miles19
Hobson City1.9 miles21

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 Q122598552The 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 116328. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.