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Green Acres Estates, Alabama

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Springville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35120. It lies near Anderson Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Odenville quadrangle.

Green Acres Estates within St. Clair County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 19 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

148 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 148 fires within 5 miles of Green Acres Estates between 1994 and 2016, burning about 1,689 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 39 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 burning64
Arson/incendiarism39
Recreation and ceremony11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Smoking7
Natural6
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Other causes1
Fireworks1

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
9 September 1999Natural59 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1998Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1997Debris and open burning1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1995Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1998Arson/incendiarism10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1998Smoking5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1997Arson/incendiarism12 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Clair 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 Green Acres Estates: 6 unknowns, 3 occurrences, 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Copper, Limestone, General. 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
Odenville Copper ProspectCopper, Limestone, GeneralOccurrence1925
Jump-Off RockIronUnknown
OdenvilleIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronProspect
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence

Every working recorded in St. Clair 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
Copper Springs1.1 miles19
Crockertown1.2 miles19
Shady Acres1.6 miles19
Havilah Hills Estates1.9 miles19
Odenville2.0 miles19
Lazy V Lake Acres2.1 miles19
Turnbough Town2.4 miles19
Woody Acres2.7 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 165078. 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.