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Wooded Acres, Alabama

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Enterprise census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36330. The Survey maps it on the Enterprise quadrangle.

Wooded Acres within Coffee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

31 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Wooded Acres between 1994 and 2017, burning about 148 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was 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 burning12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Natural1
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1

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
19 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 2011Debris and open burning15 acresAlabama Forestry Commission11367 HWY 84, AL
21 August 2000Naturalunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 July 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 July 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionSER-20140703-001
15 July 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
10 June 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined18 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionCR 167, AL
31 May 2001Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coffee County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Wooded Acres: 2 occurrences, 2 unknowns, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Gold. 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
Chinca-Pine MineGoldPast Producer
Eley MineGoldPast Producer
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
Unnamed DepositIronOccurrence
Unnamed DepositIronOccurrence

Every working recorded in Coffee 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
Olivers Lake0.4 miles12
Briarhill Acres0.4 miles12
Martin Heights0.6 miles12
Hillcrest0.7 miles12
Forest Park0.8 miles12
North Heights0.8 miles12
Jamestown Colony0.9 miles12
Valley Hills1.0 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 155784. 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.