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Brewersville, Alabama

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Belmont census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35470. It stands on Horns Branch. The Survey maps it on the Brewersville quadrangle.

Brewersville within Sumter County

On record in Brewersville

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

Surveyed buildings and structures 3 records

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.

Photographs

2 photographs,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Brewersville Methodist Church, State Route 28, Brewersville, Sumter County, AL
Brewersville Methodist Church, State Route 28, Brewersville, Sumter County, AL
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Patton-Scales House, State Route 28, Brewersville, Sumter County, AL
Patton-Scales House, State Route 28, Brewersville, Sumter County, AL
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

16 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Brewersville between 1994 and 2016, burning about 51 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Recreation and ceremony2
Debris and open burning2
Smoking1
Natural1
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
4 August 2016Natural10 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160804-1
6 July 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 July 1996Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 June 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNWR-20150619-002
9 May 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 May 1996Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 May 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 April 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sumter County

Storms near this place

3 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brewersville in 3 storm reports between 2013 and 2021: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2021Tornado (EF1)Brewersville-National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed damage in east central Sumter County and determined that it was consistent with an EF1 tornado, with maximum winds near 105 mph. A tornado touched down on the south side of Highway 28 East just west of Adams Drive. The tornado traveled north and produced mostly tree damage, with numerous hardwood and softwood trees snapped or uprooted. A home in the Bluffport community lost part of its roof and a mobile home was shifted from its blocks. The tornado lifted just north of Port of Epes Highway.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindBrewersville-Several trees were uprooted near Coatopa to near Bellamy.
March 2013HailBrewersville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sumter 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
Zion Hill1.2 miles13
Coatopa2.5 miles11
Moore Town2.5 miles13
Arrington (historical)2.6 miles11
Lilita3.0 miles9
Dug Hill3.4 miles13
Woodford4.6 miles13
Bellamy5.2 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 114872. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.