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Eastwood Farms, Alabama

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Montgomery census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36117. The Survey maps it on the Barachias quadrangle.

Eastwood Farms within Montgomery County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

31 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Eastwood Farms between 1995 and 2018, burning about 441 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 burning16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
3 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission1200 BLOCK OF WARES FERRY ROAD, AL
15 September 1999Debris and open burning10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 1999Arson/incendiarism10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionOLD POND RD, AL
30 August 2000Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 August 1995Debris and open burning6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 August 1995Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
21 August 2007Debris and open burning24 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montgomery County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Eastwood Farms: 10 producers, 1 past producer. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Titanium, Metal, Zirconium, Kyanite, Titanium, Metal, Zirconium, REE, Kyanite, Silica. 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
Deep South Const. Co PitSand and Gravel, Construction, Titanium, Metal, Zirconium, KyaniteProducerQuartz
Hodson PitSilica, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerQuartz
Mitylene PitSand and Gravel, Construction, Titanium, Metal, Zirconium, REE, KyaniteProducerQuartz
Deep South Construction Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Froggy Bottom PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Mcgee PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Mity Lene PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Oliver MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Oliver PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Robinson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerQuartz

Every working recorded in Montgomery 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
Halcyon0.7 miles13
Bellwood Plantation0.8 miles13
Bell Meadows1.3 miles13
Landmarks1.4 miles13
Brighton Estates1.6 miles13
Mitylene1.8 miles13
Carol Villa1.9 miles13
Bell Station2.0 miles13

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 Q122568340The 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 142507. 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.