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Willow Bend, Alabama

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Enterprise census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36330. The Survey maps it on the Enterprise quadrangle.

Willow Bend within Coffee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

41 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Willow Bend between 1994 and 2017, burning about 202 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 was 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 burning15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use7
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Recreation and ceremony4
Natural1
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1

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
30 September 1994Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 2011Debris and open burning15 acresAlabama Forestry Commission11367 HWY 84, AL
21 August 2000Naturalunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
2 August 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 July 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 July 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionSER-20140703-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coffee County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Willow Bend: 2 occurrences, 2 unknowns, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Gold. 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
Chinca-Pine MineGoldPast Producer
Eley MineGoldPast Producer
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
Unnamed DepositIronOccurrence
Unnamed DepositIronOccurrence

Every working recorded in Coffee 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
Oak Ridge0.6 miles12
North Heights0.8 miles12
Hillcrest0.8 miles12
Shell Heights1.0 miles12
Fairfield Estates1.0 miles11
Martin Heights1.3 miles12
Valley Hills1.3 miles12
Wooded Acres1.4 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 155782. 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.