Wood Villas, Alabama

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Tuscaloosa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35406. It stands on North River. The Survey maps it on the Tuscaloosa quadrangle.

Wood Villas within Tuscaloosa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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.

1924 USGS Tuscaloosa quadrangle1:62500
1926 USGS Tuscaloosa quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1953 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Tuscaloosa quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1984 USGS Tuscaloosa quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

69 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 69 fires within 5 miles of Wood Villas between 1994 and 2020, burning about 423 acres in total. None started naturally. 19 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	21
Arson/incendiarism	19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Railroad operations and maintenance	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Recreation and ceremony	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
5 September 1995	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2020	Debris and open burning	2.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20200920-2
18 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2010	Smoking	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
26 August 2011	Misuse of fire by a minor	8.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	7600 CHARLIE SHIRLEY ROAD, AL
11 July 2018	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20180711-2
11 July 2006	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
8 June 2000	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tuscaloosa County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Wood Villas: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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	Recorded
American Mine	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Holley Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Plant Operation	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unnamed Quarry	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Quartz

Every working recorded in Tuscaloosa 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
Wood Village	0.3 miles	18
Riverchase	0.9 miles	17
Dunbrook	1.2 miles	17
Ridgeland	1.2 miles	17
Wood Ridge	1.3 miles	17
Colony Hills	1.3 miles	19
Covey Chase	1.4 miles	17
Riverdale	1.4 miles	17

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 Q122554922

The 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 148762. 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.