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Brownsville, Alabama

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Millerville-Hollins census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35072. It stands on Partridge Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bulls Gap quadrangle.

Brownsville within Clay County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 23 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

121 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 121 fires within 5 miles of Brownsville between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,309 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 30 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 burning39
Missing data/not specified/undetermined32
Arson/incendiarism30
Recreation and ceremony7
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Natural3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking1

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 2001Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2019Debris and open burning4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190924-24
19 September 2010Natural2.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNational Forests in Alabamanot named
10 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190910-8
10 September 2006Debris and open burning23 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2019Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190807-4

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Brownsville: 5 past producers, 2 unknowns, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Graphite, Iron, Fluorine-Fluorite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Reams Clay ProspectClayProspect
USGS MR-60 Alabama No.7 ProspectFluorine-FluoriteOccurrence
Epps - Goodwater AreaGraphitePast Producer1865, 1917
Parkdale MineGraphitePast Producer
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
Miller MineGoldPast Producer1843
Miller MineGoldPast ProducerPlacer
Miller MineGoldPast Producer

Every working recorded in Clay 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
East Mill0.4 miles23
Cleveland Crossroads3.3 miles12
Skeggs Crossroads3.6 miles23
Shady Grove3.7 miles23
Roselle4.1 miles23
Pinkneyville4.9 miles12
Hollins5.2 miles23
Glades6.6 miles14

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 BrownsvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q86756594The 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 159254. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.