Colonial Gardens, Alabama

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Huntsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35759. It stands on Sweetwater Branch. The Survey maps it on the Meridianville quadrangle.

Colonial Gardens within Madison County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 24 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 Meridianville quadrangle1:24000
1948 USGS Meridianville quadrangle1:24000
1951 USGS Meridianville quadrangle1:24000, 2 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
1964 USGS Meridianville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1984 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

35 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Colonial Gardens between 1997 and 2016, burning about 149 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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	18
Arson/incendiarism	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Smoking	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
9 September 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
9 September 1998	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	NOR-20120922-001
2 September 1999	Smoking	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison 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
Mount Lebanon	1.0 miles	24
Meridianville	1.7 miles	24
Gladstone	2.8 miles	23
Baltimore Hill	3.5 miles	24
Valley View Estates	3.9 miles	24
Moores Mill	4.3 miles	24
Mount Charron Estates	4.3 miles	24
Hazel Green	4.3 miles	21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 146810. 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.