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Browns, Alabama

9 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 36759. It stands on Brush Creek. The Survey maps it on the Browns quadrangle. It stands 171 feet above sea level.

Browns within Dallas County

On record in Browns

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

58 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Browns between 1994 and 2019, burning about 200 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 6 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Debris and open burning14
Equipment and vehicle use8
Arson/incendiarism6
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1

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
30 September 2006Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2000Debris and open burning5.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1999Debris and open burning4.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionNWR-20150916-001
15 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionNWR-20150915-001
15 September 2012Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNWR-20120915-001
12 September 2005Arson/incendiarism16 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dallas County

Storms near this place

1 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Browns in 1 storm report in 2023: 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2023HailBrowns-Penny size hail reported near the intersection of Highway 80 and County Road 5.

Every storm 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
Bellevue0.8 miles9
Trinity1.1 miles9
Marshall2.2 miles9
Massillon3.7 miles9
Bogue Chitto5.9 miles10
Marion Junction6.7 miles13
Eleanor7.1 miles10
Harrell8.0 miles13

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 BrownsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4976627The 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 115005. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.