East Town, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Centreville-Brent census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35042. It stands on Smith Creek. The Survey maps it on the Centreville West quadrangle.

East Town within Bibb County

On record in East Town

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 2 records

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

Davidson-Smitherman Houselisted 1988 · 0.2 miles away
Centreville Historic Districtlisted 1978 · 0.3 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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 Montgomery quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Centreville West quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Demopolis quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Demopolis quadrangle1:100000
2002 USGS Centreville West quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

135 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 135 fires within 5 miles of East Town between 1992 and 2016, burning about 989 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 28 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	38
Arson/incendiarism	28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20
Recreation and ceremony	13
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Smoking	9
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Natural	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Other causes	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 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	3842 SELMA ROAD - CENTREVILLE, AL
7 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1999	Natural	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2004	Arson/incendiarism	16 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bibb 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 Town: 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Kaolin, Fluorine-Fluorite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Forestry Service Pit	Kaolin	Producer
	USGS MR-60 Alabama No.8 Prospect	Fluorine-Fluorite	Unknown

Every working recorded in Bibb 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
East Centreville	0.2 miles	11
Centreville	0.4 miles	11
West Centreville	0.6 miles	11
Zulu	1.0 miles	11
Fairdale	1.2 miles	11
Brent	1.8 miles	11
Vick	2.6 miles	11
Gary Springs	2.8 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1959570. 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.