Romulus Acres, Alabama

15 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 35480. The Survey maps it on the Coker quadrangle.

Romulus Acres within Tuscaloosa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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 Coker quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1984 USGS Tuscaloosa quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

46 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Romulus Acres between 1995 and 2018, burning about 299 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 8 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	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Arson/incendiarism	8
Recreation and ceremony	6
Natural	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Smoking	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
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 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	60 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
22 August 2008	Debris and open burning	3.8 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	COUNTY ROAD 19, AL
2 August 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
19 August 2007	Natural	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
11 August 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
29 July 2000	Natural	8.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
27 July 2000	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
27 July 2000	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 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

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Romulus Acres: 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
	Tannehill	Iron	Unknown
	Unnamed	Iron	Unknown

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
Romulus	0.9 miles	10
Mountainbrook	3.4 miles	14
Fosters	4.3 miles	14
Sylvan	5.0 miles	14
Berkshire Estates	6.4 miles	15
Ralph	6.6 miles	10
Shadowood	6.6 miles	10
Forest Green	6.8 miles	15

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 Q122595385

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 1700479. 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.