Berwick, Alabama

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Lineville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36266. It stands on Little Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lineville East quadrangle.

Berwick within Clay County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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.

1891 USGS Ashland quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1953 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Lineville East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1978 USGS La Grange quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

117 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 117 fires within 5 miles of Berwick between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,103 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 26 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	38
Arson/incendiarism	26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20
Railroad operations and maintenance	19
Recreation and ceremony	7
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Natural	1
Smoking	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
9 September 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1998	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	40 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160928-37
20 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 1997	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 2006	Debris and open burning	25 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
29 August 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	NER-20140829-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 94 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 94 workings within 5 miles of Berwick: 41 prospects, 37 past producers, 15 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Zinc, Arsenic, Copper, Lead, Arsenic. 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
Benjamin Prospect	Copper, Gold, Lead, Arsenic	Prospect
Bradford Fraction Prospect	Copper, Arsenic, Gold	Prospect
Bradford Ridge-Weaver Mine	Gold, Arsenic, Copper	Past Producer	Vein
Goldberg Prospect	Arsenic, Gold, Iron, Lead	Prospect
Graphite Prospect	Graphite	Prospect
Grizzel Prospect	Gold, Garnet	Occurrence	Gold
Grizzell Prospect	Arsenic, Gold, Lead	Prospect
Harris Dam Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
J D Walker Prospect	Zinc, Lead, Copper, Arsenic	Prospect
Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Clay 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
Abner (historical)	1.3 miles	12
Cragford	1.7 miles	12
Shiloh	4.4 miles	12
Corinth	5.0 miles	12
Lineville	5.1 miles	12
Midway	6.0 miles	12
Barfield	6.4 miles	12
Mellow Valley	7.5 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156055. 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.