Brooks Acres, Alabama

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Killen census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35645. It lies near Trousdale Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Killen quadrangle.

Brooks Acres within Lauderdale County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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.

1914 USGS Muscle Shoals quadrangle1:48000
1916 USGS Muscle Shoals quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1936 USGS Killen quadrangle1:24000
1953 USGS Killen quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Killen quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1986 USGS Tuscumbia quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

113 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 113 fires within 5 miles of Brooks Acres between 1994 and 2016, burning about 348 acres in total. None started naturally. 21 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	54
Arson/incendiarism	21
Recreation and ceremony	15
Misuse of fire by a minor	8
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Smoking	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
30 September 2008	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	RIVER ROAD, AL
21 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1999	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 1999	Smoking	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 August 2006	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
4 August 2005	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
31 August 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
28 August 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lauderdale 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
Lingerlost	0.7 miles	18
Aqua Vista	1.1 miles	17
Lock Six	1.9 miles	18
East Killen	2.1 miles	18
Kingman (historical)	2.3 miles	18
Masonville (historical)	2.4 miles	18
Beach Grove (historical)	2.4 miles	17
Killen	2.6 miles	18

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 Q122540022

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 114961. 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.