Open Acres, Alabama

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

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Open Acres between 1994 and 2018, burning about 336 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 9 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Sheridan Heights
• Boylston
• Brookview Manor
• Chisholm
• Eastern Meadows
• Kilby

Every fire recorded in Montgomery County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 25 workings within 5 miles of Open Acres: 20 producers, 4 past producers, 1 unknown. 20 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Titanium, Metal, Zirconium, Kyanite, Fire Clay (Refractory). Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Montgomery County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 142774. 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.