Burgreen Gin, Alabama

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Mooresville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35756. The Survey maps it on the Greenbrier quadrangle.

Burgreen Gin within Limestone County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 25 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.

1888 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1936 USGS Greenbrier quadrangle1:24000
1938 USGS Greenbrier quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Greenbrier quadrangle1:24000
1975 USGS Greenbrier quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1984 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

43 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Burgreen Gin between 1994 and 2019, burning about 177 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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	23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Natural	1
Smoking	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
3 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2010	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 1997	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2000	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2000	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160914-10
14 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Limestone 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
Oakland	0.6 miles	25
Parker	1.4 miles	25
Country Acres	1.7 miles	21
Capshaw	3.1 miles	21
East Limestone	4.1 miles	21
Peets Corner	4.3 miles	22
Greenbrier	4.7 miles	25
Salem Corner	4.8 miles	22

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 Burgreen Gin	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q122599087	The 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 115228. 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.