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Yellowleaf Creek Estates, Alabama

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Chelsea census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35051. It stands on Spring Branch. The Survey maps it on the Westover quadrangle.

Yellowleaf Creek Estates within Shelby County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

Fires near this place

202 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 202 fires within 5 miles of Yellowleaf Creek Estates between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,980 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 68 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 burning68
Arson/incendiarism68
Missing data/not specified/undetermined28
Recreation and ceremony17
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Natural6
Smoking4
Equipment and vehicle use1
Fireworks1
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
9 September 2019Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190909-6
8 September 1999Natural220 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1995Debris and open burning6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1995Arson/incendiarism25 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1995Recreation and ceremony7.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20200930-1
30 September 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160930-6
25 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionNER-20140925-002

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shelby County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Yellowleaf Creek Estates: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
UnnamedIronUnknown

Every working recorded in Shelby 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
Chelsea3.0 miles23
Westover3.8 miles20
East Saginaw4.1 miles23
Fourmile4.7 miles16
Watkins5.9 miles23
Simmsville6.5 miles23
Abbot Springs6.6 miles21
Nelson6.6 miles16

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 Q122594015The 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 149359. 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.