Briar Lake Estates, Alabama

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Atmore census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36502. The Survey maps it on the Atmore quadrangle.

Briar Lake Estates within Escambia County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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.

1953 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Atmore quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1986 USGS Atmore quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

103 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 103 fires within 5 miles of Briar Lake Estates between 1992 and 2018, burning about 626 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 19 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	43
Arson/incendiarism	19
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Railroad operations and maintenance	8
Smoking	2
Natural	2
Other causes	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Fireworks	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
5 September 2007	Power generation/transmission/distribution	5.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	17-TOLER ROAD FIRE-1473
17 August 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
10 August 2007	Debris and open burning	2.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
3 July 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
26 July 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	BRAZZELL HILL ROAD/ROBINSONVILLE ROAD, AL
25 July 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
2 July 2008	Arson/incendiarism	6.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
2 July 2005	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Escambia 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
Southern Estates	0.8 miles	9
Old Bratt Road Estates	1.3 miles	12
Atmore	1.8 miles	9
Raley Forest Hill	1.8 miles	11
Malta	2.2 miles	9
Canoe	4.1 miles	9
Pleasant Hill	4.4 miles	9
Nokomis	4.5 miles	11

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 Q122570708

The 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 133756. 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.