Butler Springs, Alabama

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Forest Home census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36030. The Survey maps it on the Forest Home quadrangle.

Butler Springs within Butler 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
1981 USGS Forest Home quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

88 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 88 fires within 5 miles of Butler Springs between 1995 and 2020, burning about 1,141 acres in total. None started naturally. 38 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
Arson/incendiarism	38
Debris and open burning	28
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Smoking	3
Recreation and ceremony	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
29 September 2006	Arson/incendiarism	18 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2015	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	SER-20150926-001
23 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	2.1 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2017	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20170919-2
23 August 1996	Recreation and ceremony	9.4 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Butler County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Butler Springs: 3 past producers, 1 occurrence. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Unnamed Deposit	Iron	Occurrence
Unnamed Mine	Iron	Past Producer
Unnamed Mine	Iron	Past Producer
Unnamed Mine	Iron	Past Producer

Every working 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Saucer	2.2 miles	7
Shacklesville	3.1 miles	7
Forest Home	4.3 miles	7
Providence	6.0 miles	7
Beacon	6.5 miles	7
Monterey	7.0 miles	7
Sand Cut	7.2 miles	8
Mount Moriah	8.2 miles	7

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 Q122546221

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 155001. 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.