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Woody Acres, Alabama

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Moody census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35120. The Survey maps it on the Odenville quadrangle.

Woody Acres within St. Clair County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 19 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

130 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 130 fires within 5 miles of Woody Acres between 1994 and 2019, burning about 1,272 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 47 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 burning54
Arson/incendiarism47
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Smoking5
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Recreation and ceremony4
Natural4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Fireworks1

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 1998Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1997Debris and open burning1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1998Arson/incendiarism10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2016Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160927-9
25 September 2019Railroad operations and maintenance6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190925-11
21 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Clair 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 Woody Acres: 4 unknowns, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Copper, Limestone, General. 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
Odenville Copper ProspectCopper, Limestone, GeneralOccurrence1925
Jump-Off RockIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence

Every working recorded in St. Clair 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
Lazy V Lake Acres0.6 miles19
Twin Lake Estates0.7 miles21
Spring Valley Estates1.2 miles21
Shady Acres1.3 miles19
Valleyhaven1.5 miles21
Saint Clair Forest1.5 miles21
Acmar2.0 miles21
Parsons2.1 miles27

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 Q122598440The 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 165229. 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.