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Baker Hill, Alabama

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Bakerhill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36027. The Survey maps it on the Baker Hill quadrangle. 211 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 535 feet above sea level.

Baker Hill within Barbour County

Population over time

2 figures

Baker Hill fell from 279 to 211 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010279
2020211-68 (-24%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

70 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Baker Hill between 1994 and 2020, burning about 937 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 11 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 burning36
Arson/incendiarism11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 2010Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2016Debris and open burning4.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160930-10
29 September 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160929-15
28 September 2016Debris and open burning1.6 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160928-12
25 August 2009Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission1058 COTTONHILL ROAD, AL
21 August 1996Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
11 August 1995Railroad operations and maintenance2.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
10 August 2008Equipment and vehicle use3.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commission552 CO RD 75, AL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Barbour County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 202 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 202 workings within 5 miles of Baker Hill: 109 occurrences, 65 past producers, 18 prospects, 7 unknowns. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Aluminum, Iron, Water, Free, Clay. 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
Dixon MineAluminum, KaolinPast Producer
Eufaula Bauxite DistrictKaolin, AluminumProducer1922, 1923
Eufaula PlantClayProducer
Baker 1Aluminum, Water, FreePast ProducerSurface
Barbour Operations MineAluminum, Water, FreeProducerSurface
Dixon 2Aluminum, Water, FreePast ProducerSurface
Dixon 3Aluminum, Water, FreePast ProducerSurface
EubanksAluminum, Water, FreePast ProducerSurface
LynnAluminum, Water, FreePast Producer1942
Sparkman 1Aluminum, Water, FreePast ProducerSurface

Every working recorded in Barbour County

Storms near this place

2 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Baker Hill in 2 storm reports between 1999 and 2001: 2 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2001HailBaker Hill-Dime size hail was reported in Bakerhill.
May 1999HailBaker Hill-Dime size hail was reported in Bakerhill.

Every storm recorded in Barbour 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
Sandy Point1.9 miles7
Richards Crossroads3.6 miles8
Cotton Hill3.9 miles7
Oateston4.0 miles7
Pleasant Hill4.4 miles8
Gaino4.7 miles7
Lime Sink5.1 miles7
Edgefield5.8 miles8

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.

Wikipedia article on Baker HillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q79605The 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 154970. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.