Woodfield, Alabama

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Auburn-Opelika census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36832. The Survey maps it on the Auburn quadrangle.

Woodfield within Lee County

On record in Woodfield

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 3 records

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

Sunny Slopelisted 2009 · 0.2 miles away
Cullars Rotationlisted 2003 · 0.2 miles away
Old Rotationlisted 1988 · 0.4 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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.

1907 USGS Opelika quadrangle1:125000
1909 USGS Opelika quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1955 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Auburn quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Opelika quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

34 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Woodfield between 1994 and 2018, burning about 372 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 3 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	6
Natural	4
Recreation and ceremony	4
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Arson/incendiarism	3
Smoking	2
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
8 September 2001	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2016	Natural	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160911-3
29 August 2003	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
24 August 2011	Natural	147 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	CO RD 17, AL
16 August 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
30 July 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
3 July 2016	Debris and open burning	4.1 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160703-11
20 July 2000	Smoking	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lee 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 Woodfield: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
	Auburn Plant & Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
	Crutchfield Mine	Gold	Past Producer	Gold

Every working recorded in Lee 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
Cloverleaf	0.4 miles	13
Windsor Forest	0.6 miles	13
Forestdale	1.2 miles	13
Stonegate	1.2 miles	13
Tanglewood	1.2 miles	13
Woodland	1.3 miles	13
Terrace Acres	1.4 miles	13
Auburn	1.5 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 138345. 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.