Courtland Downs, Alabama

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Town Creek-Courtland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35618. It stands on Schoolhouse Branch. The Survey maps it on the Courtland quadrangle.

Courtland Downs within Lawrence County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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.

1936 USGS Courtland quadrangle1:24000
1951 USGS Courtland 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
1974 USGS Courtland quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Tuscumbia quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

95 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 95 fires within 5 miles of Courtland Downs between 1994 and 2019, burning about 1,606 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 45 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	45
Debris and open burning	26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Recreation and ceremony	3
Smoking	2
Other causes	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Natural	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
8 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	100 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160908-7
6 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	30 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1999	Smoking	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
27 August 1998	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
17 August 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
15 August 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
24 July 2010	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence 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
North Courtland	0.3 miles	14
Rocky Hill	0.9 miles	14
Courtland	1.3 miles	14
Rocky Hill (historical)	1.9 miles	14
Rigdom	2.2 miles	14
Terry Heights	2.5 miles	14
Terrytown	3.1 miles	13
Town Creek	3.9 miles	15

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 Q122594657

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 164238. 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.