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Raintree Country, Alabama

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Big Sandy-Duncanville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35456. It lies near Sand Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Duncanville quadrangle.

Raintree Country within Tuscaloosa 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.

Fires near this place

82 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 82 fires within 5 miles of Raintree Country between 1994 and 2019, burning about 494 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 19 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 burning26
Arson/incendiarism19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Recreation and ceremony8
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Equipment and vehicle use3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
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
7 September 1997Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresNational Forests in AlabamaLITTLE HOPE
24 September 2016Debris and open burning12 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160924-17
14 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionNWR-20140808-003
30 August 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission11221 HWY 82 E-DUNCANVILLE, AL
29 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20170829-1
24 August 2007Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 August 1999Arson/incendiarism25 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tuscaloosa County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Raintree Country: 2 producers. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Crabtree PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Crabtree PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Monticello Two0.6 miles20
Monticello Estates1.2 miles20
Sherwood Forest1.6 miles19
Taylorwood Estates1.8 miles17
Stokes1.9 miles17
Judson Park2.6 miles19
Huntland2.9 miles19
Golden Acres3.0 miles19

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 Q122599019The 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 162819. 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.