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.
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
- Brewersville Methodist Church, State Route 28, Brewersvillefederal building survey, 9 photographs
- Henson House, State Route 28, Coatopafederal building survey, 5 photographs
- Patton-Scales House, State Route 28, Brewersvillefederal building survey, 5 photographs
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 13 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1929 USGS Epes quadrangle1:48000
- 1932 USGS Epes quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1953 USGS Meridian quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Meridian quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Meridian quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Brewersville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS De Kalb quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
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.
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
16 since 1994Regional 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/undetermined | 9 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 August 2016 | Natural | 10 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20160804-1 |
| 6 July 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 22 July 1996 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 19 June 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | NWR-20150619-002 |
| 9 May 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 20 May 1996 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 16 May 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 20 April 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 2013Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2021 | Tornado (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 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brewersville | - | Several trees were uprooted near Coatopa to near Bellamy. |
| March 2013 | Hail | Brewersville | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zion Hill | 1.2 miles | 13 | |
| Coatopa | 2.5 miles | 11 | |
| Moore Town | 2.5 miles | 13 | |
| Arrington (historical) | 2.6 miles | 11 | |
| Lilita | 3.0 miles | 9 | |
| Dug Hill | 3.4 miles | 13 | |
| Woodford | 4.6 miles | 13 | |
| Bellamy | 5.2 miles | 9 |
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.






