Baptist Hill, Alabama

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 11 records

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

• GaineswoodNational Historic Landmark · listed 1972 · 0.5 miles away
• Demopolis Historic District (Boundary Increase)listed 2014 · 0.4 miles away
• Demopolis Historic Business Districtlisted 1979 · 0.4 miles away
• Confederate Parklisted 1975 · 0.4 miles away
• US Post Officelisted 1984 · 0.4 miles away
• Lyon-Lamar Houselisted 1974 · 0.5 miles away
• Bluff Halllisted 1970 · 0.5 miles away
• Demopolis Public Schoollisted 1983 · 0.5 miles away
• Curtis Houselisted 1977 · 0.6 miles away
• Ashe Cottagelisted 1978 · 0.6 miles away
• White Blufflisted 1970 · 0.9 miles away

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.

• 1946 USGS Demopolis quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1947 USGS Demopolis quadrangle1:24000
• 1953 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1956 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Demopolis quadrangle1:100000
• 1990 USGS Demopolis quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Baptist Hill between 1994 and 2019, burning about 192 acres in total. 1 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Demopolis
• Rockcut
• Shortleaf
• Spocari
• Knoxwood
• Alfalfa

Every fire recorded in Marengo County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Baptist Hill: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Marengo County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 137566. 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.