Greenfield, Alabama

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the New Market census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35748. It stands on Elder Branch. The Survey maps it on the Maysville quadrangle.

Greenfield within Madison County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 24 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.

1888 USGS Scottsboro quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Scottsboro quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1936 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:24000
1948 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1951 USGS Maysville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

47 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Greenfield between 1997 and 2018, burning about 376 acres in total. None 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	29
Arson/incendiarism	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
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
7 September 1999	Debris and open burning	70 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1999	Smoking	10 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2006	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Storms near this place

1 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Greenfield in 1 storm report in 2013: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenfield	$3,000	Numerous trees were knocked down near the intersection of Hurricane Road and Fuzzy Hill Road.

Every storm recorded in Madison 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
Saint Clair Store	0.6 miles	24
Deposit	3.0 miles	24
Bell Factory	3.3 miles	24
Buckhorn	3.6 miles	24
Three Forks	3.7 miles	24
McCaleb Mill	3.9 miles	24
Maysville	4.1 miles	24
Fannings Crossing	4.2 miles	20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156433. 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.

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.