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Billy Goat Hill, Alabama

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Centre census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35960. It stands on Yellow Creek. The Survey maps it on the Centre quadrangle. It stands 610 feet above sea level.

Billy Goat Hill within Cherokee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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

148 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 148 fires within 5 miles of Billy Goat Hill between 1995 and 2019, burning about 942 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 83 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
Arson/incendiarism83
Debris and open burning35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1
Other causes1

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
30 September 2007Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionNER-20120929-001
28 September 2016Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160928-9
27 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1999Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cherokee County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Billy Goat Hill: 4 occurrences, 2 past producers, 1 producer, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Che 7 Clay ProspectClayProspect
Cherokee County Hwy. Dept.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Round Mountain MineIronPast Producer
Round Mt. MineIronPast ProducerHematite
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence

Every working recorded in Cherokee 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
Round Mountain1.6 miles19
Bay Springs1.7 miles19
Hopewell1.9 miles19
Anderson2.2 miles19
Bay View Estates2.3 miles19
Griffin2.5 miles19
Richardson2.6 miles19
McGhee2.7 miles19

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 Q18358302The 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 114349. 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.