Glasgow, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Greenville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36037. It stands on Nannie Branch. The Survey maps it on the Greenville East quadrangle.

Glasgow within Butler County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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 Andalusia quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Greenville East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

98 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 98 fires within 5 miles of Glasgow between 1994 and 2020, burning about 882 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 7 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	44
Equipment and vehicle use	21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Recreation and ceremony	7
Arson/incendiarism	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Natural	1
Smoking	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
29 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	25 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2010	Debris and open burning	29 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
28 August 1998	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
27 August 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	SER-20130827-004
27 August 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	SER-20130827-001
27 August 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	SER-20130827-002
27 August 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	SER-20130827-003
25 August 2000	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Butler County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 56 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 56 workings within 5 miles of Glasgow: 29 unknowns, 23 past producers, 3 prospects, 1 occurrence. 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	Recorded
Butler County Brown Iron Ore Deposit	Iron	Past Producer	1929
Carl F Parrish Prospect	Iron	Prospect
R E Smith Prospect	Iron	Prospect
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 Butler 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
Mashville	2.8 miles	8
Halso Mill	3.5 miles	7
Midway	4.9 miles	7
Sardis	5.9 miles	7
Greenville	6.6 miles	8
Wald	7.3 miles	8
Pigeon Creek	7.4 miles	7
Spring Hill	7.9 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156408. 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.