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Brushy Creek, Alabama

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Chapman census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36037. The Survey maps it on the Georgiana East quadrangle.

Brushy Creek within Butler County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

158 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 158 fires within 5 miles of Brushy Creek between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,302 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 17 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 burning61
Equipment and vehicle use32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined28
Arson/incendiarism17
Recreation and ceremony6
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Smoking5
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
6 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190906-3
6 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190906-2
6 September 1994Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190903-3
23 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190920-7
14 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Butler 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 Chapman1.4 miles9
Chapman2.2 miles9
Avant3.6 miles8
Bolling4.4 miles9
Georgiana4.4 miles9
Shell4.7 miles8
Industry5.4 miles7
Wald6.2 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 115056. 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.