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Cedar Hill, Alabama

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Rogersville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35652. It stands on Bills Branch. The Survey maps it on the Lexington quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Cedar Hill within Lauderdale County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

56 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Cedar Hill (historical) between 1994 and 2019, burning about 245 acres in total. None started naturally. 15 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 burning25
Arson/incendiarism15
Equipment and vehicle use7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
27 September 2004Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 1997Arson/incendiarism10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1999Misuse of fire by a minor10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2006Arson/incendiarism2.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
26 August 2001Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
21 August 2000Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
21 August 2000Arson/incendiarism2.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 August 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lauderdale 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
Whitehead1.4 miles16
Hurricane (historical)1.7 miles16
Corum (historical)2.1 miles16
Toonersville2.6 miles17
Romine2.6 miles17
Estep (historical)2.9 miles17
New Georgia (historical)3.0 miles14
Anderson3.3 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 155511. 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.