Browns Corner, Alabama

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Madison Crossroads census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35773. It stands on Dry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Toney quadrangle.

Browns Corner within Madison County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 21 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.

1888 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1936 USGS Toney quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Toney quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

81 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 81 fires within 5 miles of Browns Corner between 1994 and 2020, burning about 309 acres in total. None started naturally. 12 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	38
Arson/incendiarism	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Recreation and ceremony	4
Smoking	3

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
8 September 2007	Smoking	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2001	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 2010	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2015	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	NOR-20150915-001
15 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison 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
Ready Crossing	0.8 miles	21
Carter Grove	1.4 miles	21
Five Points	2.0 miles	21
Madison Crossroads	2.0 miles	21
Bobo	2.1 miles	21
Toney	2.6 miles	21
Maple Hill	2.8 miles	22
Elkwood	3.1 miles	21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 115011. 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.