New Town, Alabama

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Montgomery census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36104. It lies near Buzzard Island. The Survey maps it on the Montgomery North quadrangle.

New Town within Montgomery County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 20 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.

1927 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:48000
1930 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1953 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS Montgomery North quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1975 USGS Montgomery North quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

42 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of New Town between 1995 and 2018, burning about 169 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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	19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Arson/incendiarism	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Natural	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
23 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	15 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2002	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	188 MONROE STREET, AL
24 August 1995	Debris and open burning	5.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
17 August 1995	Debris and open burning	3.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 August 1995	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 August 1995	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
9 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	ECR-20120709-004

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montgomery County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of New Town: 18 producers, 3 past producers. 18 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Titanium, Metal, Zirconium, Kyanite, REE, Titanium, Metal, Zirconium, Kyanite. 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	Recorded
Alabama River	Sand and Gravel, Construction, Titanium, Metal, Zirconium, Kyanite	Producer	Quartz
Dixie Sand & Gravel - Maxwell Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction, Titanium, Metal, Zirconium, Kyanite, REE	Producer	Quartz
French Street Brick Plant	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer
Browder Pit	Clay	Producer
Excelsior Mine	Clay	Producer
Gober Pit Jenkins Brick Company	Clay	Producer
Jenkins Brick Co., Inc. Pit	Clay	Producer
Coosada Ferry Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Quartz
Cossada Ferry Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Dozier Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Montgomery 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
Clisby Park	0.7 miles	20
North Montgomery	0.9 miles	20
Sunset Park Estates	0.9 miles	20
Hillcrest	1.0 miles	20
King Hill	1.1 miles	20
Garden Square	1.1 miles	20
Highland Gardens	1.2 miles	20
Pecan Grove Estates	1.4 miles	20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 142751. 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.