Carriage Hill, Alabama

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.

• 1907 USGS Opelika quadrangle1:125000
• 1909 USGS Opelika quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
• 1955 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1957 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
• 1965 USGS Smiths quadrangle1:24000
• 1965 USGS Smiths Station quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1981 USGS Opelika quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 98 fires within 5 miles of Carriage Hill between 1992 and 2018, burning about 421 acres in total. None started naturally. 25 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:

• Lakewood Heights
• Greenbrier
• Ladonia
• Fontaine Village
• Garrett Heights
• Girard

Every fire recorded in Russell County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Carriage Hill: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 Russell 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 138708. 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.