West Ridge, Alabama

27 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Clay census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35173. It stands on Dillashaw Branch. The Survey maps it on the Argo quadrangle.

West Ridge within Jefferson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 27 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.

1889 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:125000
1895 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1905 USGS Leeds quadrangle1:62500
1907 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1907 USGS Leeds quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1953 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Argo quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1975 USGS Argo quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Birmingham North quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

112 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 112 fires within 5 miles of West Ridge between 1994 and 2019, burning about 1,160 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 39 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	48
Arson/incendiarism	39
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Recreation and ceremony	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Natural	1
Smoking	1

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
7 September 1995	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
22 August 1995	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
21 August 2000	Railroad operations and maintenance	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
26 July 1995	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
26 July 1995	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of West Ridge: 19 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
D P Anderson Prospect	Iron	Occurrence
J O Norris Prospect	Iron	Occurrence
Unnamed Prospect	Iron	Occurrence
Unnamed Prospect	Iron	Occurrence
Unnamed Prospect	Iron	Occurrence
Unnamed Prospect	Iron	Occurrence
Unnamed Prospect	Iron	Occurrence
Unnamed Prospect	Iron	Occurrence
Unnamed Prospect	Iron	Occurrence
Unnamed Prospect	Iron	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Jefferson 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
Argo	1.1 miles	27
Meadowview Estates	1.8 miles	27
Dogwood Estates	2.2 miles	27
Cotton Ridge	2.3 miles	27
Near Acres Estates	2.3 miles	27
Ayres Estates	2.4 miles	27
Countryside Estates	2.6 miles	27
Candlewood Lakes	2.6 miles	27

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1700590. 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.