Mountainbrook, Alabama

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Fosters census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35463. It stands on Arthur Creek. The Survey maps it on the Fosters quadrangle.

Mountainbrook within Tuscaloosa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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.

1924 USGS Tuscaloosa quadrangle1:62500
1926 USGS Tuscaloosa quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1953 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Fosters quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Tuscaloosa quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

40 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Mountainbrook between 1995 and 2019, burning about 475 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 6 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	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Arson/incendiarism	6
Recreation and ceremony	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Smoking	1
Natural	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
9 September 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	60 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
2 August 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
11 August 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
22 July 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	WESLEY CHAPEL RD. - FOSTERS, AL
21 July 2000	Natural	8.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
19 July 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tuscaloosa 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 Mountainbrook: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Fosters Ferry Bridge Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Tuscaloosa 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
Fosters	1.0 miles	14
Sylvan	1.8 miles	14
Romulus Acres	3.4 miles	15
Romulus	4.3 miles	10
Shadowood	4.7 miles	10
Ralph	5.2 miles	10
Kings Acres	6.0 miles	17
Berkshire Estates	6.1 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1700467. 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.