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Adkin Hill, Alabama

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Deatsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36092. It stands on Hurricane Branch. The Survey maps it on the Elmore quadrangle.

Adkin Hill within Elmore County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

239 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 239 fires within 5 miles of Adkin Hill between 1994 and 2019, burning about 907 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 35 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 burning82
Arson/incendiarism35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined34
Equipment and vehicle use32
Recreation and ceremony25
Misuse of fire by a minor14
Railroad operations and maintenance11
Natural4
Other causes1
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
7 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2019Debris and open burning15 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190919-15
18 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined132 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Elmore County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Adkin Hill: 5 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Elmore PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerQuartz
Elmore PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Flatwood QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Flatwood Sand & GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unnamed QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerQuartz

Every working recorded in Elmore 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
Holtville2.1 miles16
Speigner2.5 miles17
Cold Spring3.0 miles17
North Elmore3.6 miles17
Coosa River4.1 miles16
Deatsville4.5 miles17
Riddle4.6 miles16
Elmore4.9 miles17

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122561058The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 112934. 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.