The Woodlands, Alabama

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Huntsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35811. It stands on Brier Fork Flint River. The Survey maps it on the Meridianville quadrangle.

The Woodlands within Madison County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 24 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.

1888 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1936 USGS Meridianville quadrangle1:24000
1948 USGS Meridianville quadrangle1:24000
1951 USGS Meridianville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Meridianville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1984 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

55 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of The Woodlands between 1997 and 2019, burning about 77 acres in total. None started naturally. 12 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	27
Arson/incendiarism	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Smoking	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
8 September 1999	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 2001	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190922-20
20 September 2000	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison 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
Blue Spring Garden	0.2 miles	24
Pleasant Acres	0.9 miles	24
McCaleb Mill	1.1 miles	24
Three Forks	1.3 miles	24
Mount Carmel	1.4 miles	24
Ashland	1.4 miles	24
Bell Factory	1.7 miles	24
Moores Mill	1.9 miles	24

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 147310. 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.