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Willow Creek Farms, Alabama

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Auburn-Opelika census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36832. The Survey maps it on the Loachapoka quadrangle.

Willow Creek Farms within Lee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

39 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Willow Creek Farms between 1994 and 2016, burning about 220 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 5 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 burning13
Recreation and ceremony6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Arson/incendiarism5
Natural2
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
8 September 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2016Naturalunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20160911-3
29 August 2003Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 August 2007Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
11 August 2007Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
10 August 2007Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 July 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionECR-20120724-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lee County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Willow Creek Farms: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Stone, Dimension. 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
Crutchfield MineGoldPast ProducerGold
James Dimension Stone QuarryStone, DimensionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lee 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
Ridgewood Village1.6 miles13
Stonegate1.9 miles13
Woodland Hills2.2 miles13
Cary Woods2.4 miles13
Head Estates2.4 miles14
Auburn2.6 miles13
Kuderna Acres2.6 miles13
Woodfield2.6 miles13

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 Q122548812The 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 138342. 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.