Browntown, Alabama

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Marbury census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36051. It stands on Fox Creek. The Survey maps it on the Old Kingston quadrangle.

Browntown within Autauga County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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.

1891 USGS Clanton quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1953 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Billingsley quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1975 USGS Billingsley SE quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Clanton quadrangle1:100000
1987 USGS Clanton quadrangle1:100000
1987 USGS Old Kingston quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

236 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 236 fires within 5 miles of Browntown between 1994 and 2019, burning about 1,600 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 33 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	123
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	38
Arson/incendiarism	33
Recreation and ceremony	15
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Smoking	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Natural	4

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
29 September 2016	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160929-14
28 September 2016	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160928-6
27 September 2004	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 1997	Debris and open burning	12 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	1931 BARRETT HILL LANE, AL
19 September 1997	Debris and open burning	3.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Autauga 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
Oak Grove	2.5 miles	18
White City	2.6 miles	17
Old Kingston	2.6 miles	18
Poseys Crossroads	3.3 miles	18
Hillside (historical)	4.1 miles	18
Joffre	4.2 miles	18
Vida	4.4 miles	18
Haynes	4.5 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 147535. 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.