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Mountainbrook, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Troy census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36081. The Survey maps it on the Troy quadrangle.

Mountainbrook within Pike County

On record in Mountainbrook

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.

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

Fires near this place

57 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Mountainbrook between 1994 and 2018, burning about 209 acres in total. 1 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 burning18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Arson/incendiarism7
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking3
Natural1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
20 September 2003Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 1994Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
21 July 2000Naturalunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 July 2003Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 June 1994Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
10 June 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 May 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission1388 CO RD 7708, AL
17 May 2000Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Mountainbrook: 12 unknowns, 8 occurrences, 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Pik 4 Clay ProspectClayProspect
J A Curtis ProspectIronProspect
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown

Every working recorded in Pike 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Woodland Hills0.2 miles8
Green Oaks0.4 miles8
Oaks Heights0.8 miles8
Pine Ridge Estates0.9 miles8
Troy1.1 miles8
Pinewood Estates1.1 miles8
Corcoran1.3 miles8
Northdale1.4 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1730438. 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.