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Brook Highland, Alabama

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Chelsea census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35242. It lies near New Hope Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Cahaba Heights quadrangle. 7,406 people lived here at the 2020 count.

Brook Highland within Shelby County

Population over time

2 figures

Brook Highland grew from 6,746 to 7,406 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20106,746
20207,406+660 (+10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 22 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

55 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Brook Highland between 1995 and 2020, burning about 397 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 18 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/incendiarism18
Debris and open burning15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Recreation and ceremony7
Equipment and vehicle use2
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
5 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190905-6
5 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190905-8
5 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1995Debris and open burning16 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2016Recreation and ceremony6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160929-6
13 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 1999Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionNER-20140828-003

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shelby County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Brook Highland: 2 past producers, 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Perlite, Vermiculite. 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
Irondale PlantVermiculitePast Producer
W. R. Grace Irondale PlantPerlitePast Producer
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown

Every working recorded in Shelby 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
Lake Purdy0.5 miles22
Bridgeton1.0 miles22
Shoal Run1.5 miles22
Morning Sun Villas1.9 miles22
Little Ridge Estates2.1 miles22
Cahaba Commons2.2 miles22
Inverness Cliffs2.5 miles22
Meadowbrook2.6 miles22

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.

Wikipedia article on Brook HighlandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1274832The 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 154317. 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.