Lakewood, Alabama

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Athens census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35611. The Survey maps it on the Athens quadrangle.

Lakewood within Limestone County

On record in Lakewood

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Governor George Smith Houston Houselisted 1986 · 0.9 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

1888 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1935 USGS Athens quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:24000
1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Athens quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1984 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

83 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 83 fires within 5 miles of Lakewood between 1994 and 2020, burning about 332 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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	45
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Recreation and ceremony	6
Smoking	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Arson/incendiarism	2

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 1999	Misuse of fire by a minor	30 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160929-7
25 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190925-15
23 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190920-5
2 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	NOR-20150902-001
2 September 2006	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Limestone 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 Lakewood: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Phosphorus-Phosphates. 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
	Gilbert Mine	Phosphorus-Phosphates	Producer

Every working recorded in Limestone 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
Meadowbrook	0.5 miles	22
Athens	1.2 miles	22
Byram Heights	1.3 miles	22
Ezell Place	1.7 miles	15
Pinedale Acres	1.8 miles	22
Belmont	1.9 miles	22
Glenn Valley	2.0 miles	15
Campbell	2.2 miles	22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 151981. 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.