Flatwoods, Alabama

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Littleville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35674. It stands on Stinking Bear Creek. The Survey maps it on the Russellville quadrangle.

Flatwoods within Colbert County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 20 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.

1924 USGS Tuscumbia quadrangle1:48000
1924 USGS Tuscumbia quadrangle1:62500
1926 USGS Tuscumbia quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1936 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:24000
1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Russellville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1986 USGS Tuscumbia quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

180 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 180 fires within 5 miles of Flatwoods between 1994 and 2019, burning about 993 acres in total. None started naturally. 43 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	87
Arson/incendiarism	43
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	26
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Recreation and ceremony	8
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Smoking	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	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2010	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190921-7
18 September 2010	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Colbert County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 24 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 24 workings within 5 miles of Flatwoods: 17 unknowns, 7 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown

Every working recorded in Colbert 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
Underwood Heights	0.8 miles	18
Lime Rock	0.9 miles	20
Ligon Springs	2.1 miles	20
Bear Creek	2.7 miles	18
White House Springs	3.1 miles	18
Sand Lick (historical)	3.3 miles	19
New Bethel	3.5 miles	19
Littleville	3.6 miles	20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 141127. 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.