What Am I Looking At?

[Random4219]

Apology in advance if this is something obvious. I have been on Google Earth before, but have only recently looked for interesting sites (Treasure, ha) in my area. These two are the only interesting spots I have found lately and I would love for everyone to tell me what they think or know they are.

 

[allen_idaho]

The mounds look like rotting hay to me. But it could also just be dirt. You never know.

The square looks like a maintained camping/recreation area. I think that is a restroom in the center.

 

[jog]

The mounds might be where someone has dug test holes.

 

[Tank69]

#1 to me looks like large holes or dirt mounds .

#2 looks like a camping/Rec area

my 2 cents I'd cross the water there an go hunt 34°50'20.72"N 87°56'37.27"W not a bad looking beach an boat ramp

 

[gmstreet]

Looks like areas where cows ate round haybales. The farmer would set the next one out in a different area afterwards, because the cows would make a mess while eating the hay. That's why there are so many. The circles are larger than the actual bale would have been because they would scatter the hay, track and crap in a circle around it.

Greg

 

[jgowans]

They could be sand blows from the earthquake in 1811/12 New Madrid. I just saw a show on them this week.
They look like this.
http://www.scchealth.org/docs/doche/director/0508_director.html

 

[stefen]

Another possibility that they may be due to rotory irrigation heads operating with low pressure / low volumn capacity.

 

[mrjosh]

The mounds seem to big for hay mounds to me, it looks like there is some height to them. I would think i they were old that they would be grass covered.

 

[AlabamaRelic]

I live less than 40 miles from the 'mounds'. Next time I'm up that way I'll check it out.

 

[Salvor6]

That square is Colbert Island State Park.

 

[AlabamaRelic]

That square is Colbert Island State Park.

I can't find a link for that. Never heard of it either. The square is in Lauderdale County.

 

[Gary in Pennsylvania]

Well, they weren't there in 1999. (using the later image from google earth)
But they WERE there in 2006.

Hmmmmm.......

That rules out MY guess!

Being and former Redleg.....I was gonna suggest an old artillery range impact zone!

 

[Monty]

Just recently I went with Burdie, Stoney 56 and Mental Granny to a site where there were several similar looking circles that was thought to be old tepee sites where an Indian summer camp existed. Alas, we found out it was where round hay bales had been set out for cattle. So, I see they have already been ID'd as such. Good Job! Monty

 

[Curtis]

Hope your right about the mounds! I liked the sand hole idea too! Might be hay bales...might be site of the area serial killers body dump too! Could also be where there were trees that got as grandpa use to say "root waded up”! This blown down trees theory is that the root end would pull earth up with the roots, then when the tree decayed there would be a mound left. The rest of the tree would not show after awhile.

 

[Monty]

There is a town not far from me named Mounds. The reason is because it is right in the middle of an area with hundreds of Indian mounds built many years ago. Several of the mounds were excavated years ago by the well meaning Archies and a lot Indian artifacts were dug up and now most of it resides in museums. I suspect a lot of it resides in various Archie personal collections, but don't know that for a fact. Now it is forbidden to dig up a mound as they are considered sacred by modern Indians and besides it is just poor taste. I'm not positive but I think many of them are burial mounds and the artifacts are there to serve the deceased in the after life. Makes sense to me. Monty

 

[wolfpaw518]

I dunno...looks to me like someone just bombed Alabama!

neil (Minnesota)

 

[ZINCLID]

I'm not sure what did that Could be that some type of equipment did it? Who knows? Don't look like usual crop circle patterns on most of it.

 

[digging wv]

I've got lot's and lot's of hours flying around the country in USMC CH-46 and CH-53 helos. (back in the day) All our altitudes never exceded 10,000 feet so we had a lot of low level stuff.We made frequent trips from east coast to west and back again. I've seen patterns such as those pictured across the country. I'm sure you have dug a hole with one type of soil and a few hundreds yards you get something else. Well this is just a birds eye view of that. It makes for an interesting picture but it's a very common thing.

 

[dirty_digger]

The "mounds" picture could also be a plant disease. There is some kind of fungus or bacteria that will grow in a cirlce like that. Some will get HUGE. You can find them all across the Central and Southern U.S. I found many of them on Google Earth. Sometimes you can go out to the site and cant find the circle. They can fade during the seasons changing or blend in really well when your standing right on top of them.

Just my two cents.....

 

[AlabamaRelic]

I finally took the time to drive out and look at this. I couldn't see the exact spot where the mounds are due to the lay of the land. However, on the west side of the field were where round bales of hay had been fed to the cows this winter. The cows had spread the hay out in 30'+ circles. So I would say it's hay.