Twin Brooks, Alabama

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Florence census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35630. It stands on Huddon Creek. The Survey maps it on the Florence quadrangle.

Twin Brooks within Lauderdale County

On record in Twin Brooks

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Larimore Houselisted 1974 · 1.0 miles away

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.

1914 USGS Muscle Shoals quadrangle1:48000
1916 USGS Muscle Shoals quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1936 USGS Florence quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Florence quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Florence quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1986 USGS Tuscumbia quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

139 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 139 fires within 5 miles of Twin Brooks between 1994 and 2020, burning about 384 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 45 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	58
Arson/incendiarism	45
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Smoking	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Recreation and ceremony	5
Natural	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
29 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190929-11
25 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2000	Natural	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 2011	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	673 CR 72, AL
17 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 2010	Debris and open burning	7.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 1999	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 Lauderdale 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
Creekwood	0.6 miles	19
Mars Hill	0.8 miles	19
Morningdale	0.9 miles	19
Beechwood	1.1 miles	19
Beckman	1.2 miles	19
Chisholm Hills	1.4 miles	19
Rose Park	1.4 miles	19
The Cedars	1.6 miles	19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 142233. 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.