Pattersontown, Alabama

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Abernant census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35444. It stands on Texas Creek. The Survey maps it on the Abernant quadrangle.

Pattersontown within Tuscaloosa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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.

1899 USGS Brookwood quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1927 USGS Adger quadrangle1:48000
1932 USGS Yolande quadrangle1:62500
1935 USGS Yolande quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1953 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
1975 USGS Yolande SW quadrangle1:24000
1980 USGS Abernant quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Tuscaloosa quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

146 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 146 fires within 5 miles of Pattersontown between 1994 and 2020, burning about 2,414 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 55 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
Arson/incendiarism	55
Debris and open burning	44
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Recreation and ceremony	10
Railroad operations and maintenance	8
Natural	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Smoking	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Fireworks	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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 1998	Arson/incendiarism	27 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1998	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 1997	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	30 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1995	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Yolande	1.6 miles	19
Abernant	1.7 miles	19
North Alabama Junction	3.7 miles	21
East Brookwood	4.1 miles	21
Million Dollar Lake Estates	4.6 miles	19
Burchfield	4.8 miles	21
Lake View	4.8 miles	19
Kellerman	5.0 miles	21

Elsewhere

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.

Wikidata item Q122555225

The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 124493. 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.