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Brookwood, Alabama

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Safford census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36773. The Survey maps it on the Safford quadrangle.

Brookwood within Dallas County

On record in Brookwood

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

64 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Brookwood between 1994 and 2019, burning about 581 acres in total. None started naturally. 13 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 burning29
Arson/incendiarism13
Equipment and vehicle use5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
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
9 September 2004Arson/incendiarism17 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2000Debris and open burning1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190928-2
26 September 2000Debris and open burning5.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2005Debris and open burning22 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2005Debris and open burning4.1 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use8.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dallas 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
Martin0.8 miles10
Westbrook0.9 miles10
Eleanor1.4 miles10
Bogue Chitto3.2 miles10
Salem3.5 miles10
Blalock3.7 miles11
Safford3.7 miles10
Orrville3.9 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 144527. 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.