Greenwood, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Fulton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36451. The Survey maps it on the Fulton West quadrangle.

Greenwood within Clarke 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
1978 USGS Fulton West quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Monroeville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

68 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Greenwood between 1994 and 2019, burning about 349 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	22
Debris and open burning	16
Natural	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Recreation and ceremony	4
Arson/incendiarism	4
Smoking	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
8 September 1995	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2005	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 2014	Natural	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	SWR-20140902-002
26 August 1996	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
25 August 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
18 August 2007	Natural	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
14 August 2000	Smoking	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
13 August 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clarke County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Greenwood: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fullers Earth, Zeolites. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Tallahatta Claystone, Clarke County	Fullers Earth, Zeolites	Prospect	BEDDED

Every working recorded in Clarke 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
Peacock	1.7 miles	8
Fulton	1.8 miles	7
Dickinson	2.8 miles	7
Springfield	3.7 miles	8
Chilton	4.5 miles	8
Grove Hill	5.0 miles	8
Asbury	5.8 miles	7
Rural	6.0 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 119378. 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.