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Green Acres, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Dothan census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36305. It stands on Pinhook Creek. The Survey maps it on the Dothan West quadrangle.

Green Acres within Houston County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

Fires near this place

36 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Green Acres between 1994 and 2019, burning about 398 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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 burning12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Arson/incendiarism5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1

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
4 September 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionTIDWELL FALLS OFF ENFINGER RD, AL
28 September 2003Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 August 2000Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
1 July 2019Debris and open burning8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190701-5
20 June 2000Misuse of fire by a minor22 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 June 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSER-20150619-001
11 June 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 May 2007Debris and open burning2.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Houston County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Green Acres: 8 producers, 5 unknowns, 4 occurrences. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Couch Construction Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Couch Number 6 QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerQuartz
Lingo PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Reese QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerQuartz
Reese QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerQuartz
Roy J. Lingo Sand Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Thomas QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerQuartz
Unnamed QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerQuartz
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown

Every working recorded in Houston County

Storms near this place

5 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Green Acres in 5 storm reports between 2011 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2020Tornado (EF1)Green Acres$50,000A tornado touched down in northwest Houston County on Bob Hall Road, just south of Ariel Lane. Here it damaged the roof of a home and tore a portion of the roof off of a storage facility. It tracked southeast and damaged the roof of approximately eight|homes in a neighborhood along Nottingham Way. The tornado continued to the southeast and downed trees along Harrington Lane where it quickly lifted.
January 2020Thunderstorm WindGreen Acres$1,000Stoplights were blown off from their wires on Highway 84 and Westgate Pkwy.
September 2011LightningGreen Acres$1,000Lightning struck a rooftop at 3117 Wesley Way. Both the monetary damage and the time of the strike were estimated.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindGreen Acres-A personal weather station measured a gust to 57 knots.
April 2016Flash FloodGreen Acres-Water was reported to be covering the roadway near Fortner Street.

Every storm recorded in Houston 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
Spann Brothers Estates0.1 miles8
Jones Crossroads0.8 miles8
Brannon Stand1.4 miles8
Pine Ridge Estates1.4 miles8
Peterman1.4 miles8
Whispering Pines1.5 miles8
Brannon Stand Heights1.5 miles8
Clark Crossroads1.7 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 119321. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.