Burlington, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Tallassee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36078. The Survey maps it on the Tallassee quadrangle. It stands 554 feet above sea level. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Burlington within Elmore County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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.

1906 USGS Dadeville quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Tallassee quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Opelika quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

131 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 131 fires within 5 miles of Burlington (historical) between 1994 and 2016, burning about 1,081 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 21 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	53
Arson/incendiarism	21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18
Recreation and ceremony	18
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Natural	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	2

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
9 September 1998	Natural	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	7.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	ECR-20120927-002
2 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	18 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 2002	Misuse of fire by a minor	2.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
26 August 1998	Debris and open burning	4.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Elmore County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Burlington (historical): 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	Sharpe # 1	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Elmore 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
Butts Mill	1.8 miles	11
Hornsbytown	2.4 miles	11
Neman	2.4 miles	11
Kent	2.7 miles	11
Friendship	3.5 miles	11
Chana Creek	3.8 miles	11
Tallassee	3.9 miles	11
Jordanville	4.0 miles	11

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.

Wikidata item Q4999181

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 156136. 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.