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Brassell Bottom, Alabama

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Montgomery census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36117. The Survey maps it on the Willow Springs quadrangle.

Brassell Bottom within Montgomery County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

58 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Brassell Bottom between 1994 and 2018, burning about 672 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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 burning29
Equipment and vehicle use8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Recreation and ceremony5
Arson/incendiarism5
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Natural1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1

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
19 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commission834 CO RD 4, AL
15 September 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionECR-20150915-001
15 September 1999Debris and open burning10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 1999Arson/incendiarism10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 2007Natural2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionOLD POND RD, AL
3 August 1995Debris and open burning6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 August 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montgomery County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Brassell Bottom: 13 producers, 6 past producers. 13 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Titanium, Metal, Zirconium, Kyanite, Titanium, Metal, Zirconium, REE, Kyanite, Silica. 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
Deep South Const. Co PitSand and Gravel, Construction, Titanium, Metal, Zirconium, KyaniteProducerQuartz
Hodson PitSilica, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerQuartz
Mitylene PitSand and Gravel, Construction, Titanium, Metal, Zirconium, REE, KyaniteProducerQuartz
Brannon PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerQuartz
Deep South Construction Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Dredge QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Froggy Bottom PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Johnson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Mcgee PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Mity Lene PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Montgomery 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
Montgomery East1.1 miles13
Mitylene1.2 miles13
Sunshine Village1.3 miles13
Landmarks1.5 miles13
Muklassa (historical)2.2 miles13
Cooks2.2 miles13
Gunter Grove2.3 miles13
Arrowhead2.3 miles13

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 Q122553036The 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 114853. 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.