Woodfin Mill, Alabama

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Athens census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35620. It lies near Falls Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Elkmont quadrangle.

Woodfin Mill within Limestone County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 20 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.

1888 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1936 USGS Elkmont quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Elkmont quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

63 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Woodfin Mill between 1994 and 2020, burning about 503 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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	29
Recreation and ceremony	11
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Smoking	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Arson/incendiarism	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Other causes	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
6 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Tennessee Division of Forestry	not named
4 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1999	Smoking	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1999	Debris and open burning	140 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 1997	Smoking	10 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1998	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
31 August 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
8 June 2000	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Limestone 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 Woodfin Mill: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Ardmore Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer	Limestone
	Ardmore Quarry	Stone	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Limestone 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
Pettusville	1.6 miles	20
Holland Gin	1.7 miles	20
Estaville (historical)	2.2 miles	20
Locke Crossroads	2.5 miles	20
Thach	3.3 miles	20
Elkmont	3.7 miles	20
Veto	4.3 miles	20
Ardmore	4.3 miles	22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 157277. 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.