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Brinn, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Hamilton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35570. It stands on Cook Branch. The Survey maps it on the Hamilton NE quadrangle.

Brinn within Marion County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

89 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 89 fires within 5 miles of Brinn between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,406 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 53 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
Arson/incendiarism53
Debris and open burning17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Recreation and ceremony4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Other causes1
Natural1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
8 September 2002Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2004Arson/incendiarism25 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 1999Arson/incendiarism25 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20200921-3
18 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190918-9
17 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marion County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Brinn: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Kaolin. 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
Hackleburg Kaolin Ala.KaolinPast ProducerSedimentary
Chalk Bluff MineClayProducer
Hackleburg PitsClayProducer

Every working recorded in Marion County

Storms near this place

1 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brinn in 1 storm report in 2015: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
January 2015Thunderstorm WindBrinn-Barn damaged on County Road 108 Near Highway 253. Several trees also uprooted along Highway 253.

Every storm recorded in Marion 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
Pearces Mills3.8 miles11
Whitehouse4.9 miles12
Fairview5.8 miles14
Tessner5.9 miles14
Piney Grove6.4 miles12
Lumbull6.9 miles14
Thornhill7.1 miles12
Goddard7.4 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 137941. 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.

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.