Lakewood Heights, Alabama

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Phenix City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36867. It stands on Holland Creek. The Survey maps it on the Phenix City quadrangle.

Lakewood Heights within Russell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 22 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.

1914 USGS Seale quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1950 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1950 USGS Seale quadrangle1:62500
1955 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1955 USGS Seale quadrangle1:62500
1957 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Tuskegee quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

101 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 101 fires within 5 miles of Lakewood Heights between 1992 and 2018, burning about 433 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 24 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	24
Misuse of fire by a minor	16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Recreation and ceremony	11
Smoking	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Natural	1
Other causes	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
5 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	ECR-20150905-001
5 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2008	Misuse of fire by a minor	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	2406 SANDFORT RD., AL
2 September 1997	Debris and open burning	3.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	ECR-20140901-002
27 August 2014	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	ECR-20140827-002
18 August 2002	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
1 August 1999	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Russell County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Lakewood Heights: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Phenix City Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Bussey Pit	Clay	Producer
No. 1 Pit	Clay	Producer

Every working recorded in Russell 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
Greenbrier	0.3 miles	22
Carriage Hill	0.4 miles	14
Phenix City	2.4 miles	22
Girard	3.1 miles	22
Ladonia	3.4 miles	22
Rolling Hills	3.6 miles	22
Kaolin	3.8 miles	22
Garrett Heights	4.6 miles	26

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 138719. 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.