Town and Country Estates, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Troy census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36079. The Survey maps it on the Youngblood quadrangle.

Town and Country Estates within Pike County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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.

1953 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Youngblood quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

58 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Town and Country Estates between 1994 and 2020, burning about 473 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 16 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	17
Arson/incendiarism	16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	6
Recreation and ceremony	2
Smoking	2
Natural	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
16 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 July 1996	Railroad operations and maintenance	14 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
9 June 2000	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 June 2007	Natural	7.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
11 June 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	HENDERSON LN, AL
8 May 2015	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	SER-20150508-001
6 May 2020	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20200506-21
6 May 2020	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20200506-24

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 56 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 56 workings within 5 miles of Town and Country Estates: 27 unknowns, 12 occurrences, 11 past producers, 6 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Pik 3 Clay Prospect	Clay	Prospect
Pik 4 Clay Prospect	Clay	Prospect
J A Curtis Prospect	Iron	Prospect
J Bryce Smith Prospect	Iron	Prospect
Milton McKeller Prospect	Iron	Prospect
O L Bryan Prospect	Iron	Prospect
Pike County Brown Iron Ore Deposits	Iron	Past Producer	1940
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown

Every working recorded in Pike 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
Allred	0.3 miles	8
Hephzibah	0.5 miles	8
Meadow Grove	0.7 miles	8
Country Club Estates	1.9 miles	8
Pine Forest Estates	2.3 miles	8
Mossy Grove	2.6 miles	8
Highland Park	2.9 miles	8
College Park	3.2 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1730459. 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.