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East Brewton, Alabama

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the East Escambia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36426. It stands on Burnt Corn Creek. The Survey maps it on the Brewton South quadrangle. 2,293 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 98 feet above sea level.

East Brewton within Escambia County

On record in East Brewton

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

East Brewton fell from 2,478 to 2,293 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20102,478
20202,293-185 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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.

Fires near this place

214 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 214 fires within 5 miles of East Brewton between 1994 and 2019, burning about 1,570 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 35 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 burning104
Missing data/not specified/undetermined35
Arson/incendiarism35
Equipment and vehicle use13
Recreation and ceremony12
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Natural3
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
30 September 2009Power generation/transmission/distribution13 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionFINLAY LANE, AL
29 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190929-17
29 September 2006Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2008Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission82 MATTHEW LANE, AL
25 September 2008Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionWELKA ROAD, AL
23 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190923-14

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Escambia County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of East Brewton: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
East Brewton PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed QuarrySand and Gravel, Construction, SilicaProducerQuartz

Every working recorded in Escambia County

Storms near this place

2 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Brewton in 2 storm reports between 2008 and 2016: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2016Thunderstorm WindEast Brewton$5,000Severe thunderstorm wind gusts downed tree on McGougin Road, Wood Road, and Edendale Road.
June 2008HailEast Brewton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Escambia 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Brewton1.0 miles9
Spring Hill1.8 miles9
Riverview2.3 miles9
Pea Ridge2.4 miles9
Rock Hill3.7 miles7
Keego4.1 miles9
Dixonville6.6 miles9
Kirkland6.8 miles9

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 East BrewtonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q79595The 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 117739. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.