Broughton, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Roanoke census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36274. The Survey maps it on the Roanoke West quadrangle.

Broughton within Randolph 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.

1899 USGS Wedowee quadrangle1:125000
1902 USGS Wedowee quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1953 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Roanoke West quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1978 USGS La Grange quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

139 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 139 fires within 5 miles of Broughton between 1994 and 2019, burning about 1,040 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 26 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	64
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	28
Arson/incendiarism	26
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Recreation and ceremony	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Natural	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Other causes	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
9 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	NER-20150920-003
19 September 2011	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	327 CR 861, AL
17 September 2003	Debris and open burning	12 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	20 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160915-12
31 August 1998	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Randolph 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
Friendship	2.4 miles	11
Harmon Crossroads	2.5 miles	11
Peavy	2.8 miles	11
Cornhouse	2.9 miles	11
Mount Olive	3.3 miles	11
Mount Zion	3.5 miles	11
Dickert	3.9 miles	11
High Pine	4.1 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156119. 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.