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Bald Hill, Alabama

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Slocomb census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36375. It stands on Poley Branch. The Survey maps it on the Clayhatchee quadrangle.

Bald Hill within Geneva 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

27 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Bald Hill between 1996 and 2020, burning about 517 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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 burning15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1

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
2 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1999Debris and open burning10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 July 1996Recreation and ceremony1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 June 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 June 1998Naturalunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 May 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined312 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionCUMBIE RD, AL
29 May 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
12 May 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20200512-17

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Geneva County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Bald Hill: 15 unknowns, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown

Every working recorded in Geneva County

Storms near this place

1 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bald Hill in 1 storm report in 2020: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
April 2020Thunderstorm WindBald Hill-A tree was blown down across Highway 123.

Every storm recorded in Geneva 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
Bailey Crossroads2.9 miles11
Dundee3.6 miles11
Slocomb4.4 miles11
High Bluff5.1 miles12
Hartford5.3 miles11
Malvern6.4 miles11
Bellwood8.4 miles11
Kellys Crossroads8.9 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 113396. 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.