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Green Acres, Alabama

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Enterprise census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36330. It stands on Little Cowpen Creek. The Survey maps it on the Enterprise quadrangle.

Green Acres within Coffee County

On record in Green Acres

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.

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Green Acres between 1994 and 2019, burning about 169 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was 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 burning12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Recreation and ceremony3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Natural1

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
19 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2019Debris and open burning2.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190916-3
1 September 2011Debris and open burning15 acresAlabama Forestry Commission11367 HWY 84, AL
30 August 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
21 August 2000Naturalunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 July 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190729-11
10 June 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined18 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionCR 167, AL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coffee County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Green Acres: 3 occurrences, 2 unknowns, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Gold. 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
Chinca-Pine MineGoldPast Producer
Eley MineGoldPast Producer
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
Unnamed DepositIronOccurrence
Unnamed DepositIronOccurrence
Unnamed MineIronOccurrence

Every working recorded in Coffee 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
College Heights0.2 miles12
Singing Brook0.3 miles12
Pinedale Estates0.5 miles12
Enterprise1.1 miles12
Jamestown Colony1.2 miles12
Coppinville1.4 miles12
Griffin Heights1.6 miles12
Keyton1.7 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 155757. 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.