East Brookwood, Alabama

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Brookwood census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35444. The Survey maps it on the Brookwood quadrangle.

East Brookwood within Tuscaloosa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 21 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.

1899 USGS Brookwood quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1929 USGS Searles quadrangle1:48000
1934 USGS Searles quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1953 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Brookwood quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Tuscaloosa quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

90 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 90 fires within 5 miles of East Brookwood between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,254 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 29 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	29
Debris and open burning	27
Recreation and ceremony	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Natural	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	6
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Smoking	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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 1998	Arson/incendiarism	27 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1998	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	8.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160906-2
30 September 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2016	Natural	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160926-8
26 September 1999	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 1997	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tuscaloosa 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 Alabama Junction	0.4 miles	21
Klondike	1.1 miles	21
Brookwood	2.2 miles	21
Howton	2.9 miles	21
Searles	3.6 miles	21
Pattersontown	4.1 miles	19
Kellerman	4.4 miles	21
Burchfield	4.7 miles	21

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 Q122547428

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 117741. 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.