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Brides Hill, Alabama

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Hillsboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35618. It stands on Red Branch. The Survey maps it on the Hillsboro quadrangle.

Brides Hill within Lawrence County

On record in Brides Hill

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 1 record

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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

140 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 140 fires within 5 miles of Brides Hill between 1994 and 2019, burning about 2,289 acres in total. None started naturally. 67 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/incendiarism67
Debris and open burning34
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Recreation and ceremony4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Other causes1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionNOR-20130928-001
23 September 1999Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use30 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2003Railroad operations and maintenance8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1999Smokingunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1998Arson/incendiarism45 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionNOR-20150912-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence 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
Wheeler1.3 miles15
Lovettville2.3 miles15
Terry Heights2.3 miles14
Jerusalem2.6 miles15
Courtland3.5 miles14
Hillsboro3.5 miles15
North Courtland4.5 miles14
Reynolds4.6 miles15

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 Q122539782The 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 114891. 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.