Millwood, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1947 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Sawyerville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36776. It stands on Limestone Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mason Bend quadrangle.

Millwood within Hale County

On record in Millwood

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.

Millwoodlisted 1989 · 0.1 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

1947 USGS Mason Bend quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1948 USGS Mason Bend quadrangle1:24000
1953 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Demopolis quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Demopolis quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

28 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Millwood between 1994 and 2018, burning about 178 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	14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Arson/incendiarism	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
2 August 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
3 July 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
2 July 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	CO RD 73 & 35, AL
18 June 1994	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
24 May 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
11 May 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	CO RD 17 SAWYERVILLE, AL
1 April 1997	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
12 March 2007	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hale 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
Port Royal	1.3 miles	10
Gilmore Quarters	2.5 miles	11
Lock Five	5.4 miles	12
Cedarville	5.4 miles	12
Sawyerville	6.4 miles	9
Melton	6.5 miles	10
Casemore	6.6 miles	12
Arcola	7.2 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 139021. 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.