Brownville, Alabama

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Evergreen census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36401. The Survey maps it on the Evergreen quadrangle.

Brownville within Conecuh County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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.

1953 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Evergreen quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

189 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 189 fires within 5 miles of Brownville between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,639 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 28 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	83
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	36
Arson/incendiarism	28
Equipment and vehicle use	17
Recreation and ceremony	8
Railroad operations and maintenance	7
Smoking	3
Natural	3
Fireworks	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
6 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2001	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2005	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2005	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2005	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Conecuh County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

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

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
	Unnamed	Iron	Unknown

Every working recorded in Conecuh County

Storms near this place

2 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brownville in 2 storm reports between 2014 and 2018: 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Brownville	$2,000	High winds downed trees near the intersection of highway 84 and highway 31.
May 2014	Flash Flood	Brownville	-	Heavy rain caused 3 roads to be closed due flooding in Evergreen.

Every storm recorded in Conecuh 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
Rabb	2.3 miles	7
Owassa	2.4 miles	7
Wilcox	3.0 miles	8
Flat Rock	3.7 miles	7
Evergreen	3.8 miles	7
Old Town	4.0 miles	7
Centerville	4.9 miles	7
Travis Bridge	6.0 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 115025. 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.

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.