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Center Hill, Alabama

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Childersburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35150. It lies near Marble Hill. The Survey maps it on the Sylacauga West quadrangle.

Center Hill within Talladega County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 23 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

263 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 263 fires within 5 miles of Center Hill between 1994 and 2020, burning about 4,702 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 75 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 burning107
Arson/incendiarism75
Missing data/not specified/undetermined35
Recreation and ceremony18
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Equipment and vehicle use6
Natural5
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Other causes1
Fireworks1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1

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
9 September 2002Arson/incendiarism80 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2002Debris and open burning10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2007Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2007Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190927-6
25 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Talladega County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 29 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 29 workings within 5 miles of Center Hill: 19 unknowns, 5 past producers, 2 prospects, 2 occurrences. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Manganese, Aluminum, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Childersburg QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Kymulga ProspectAluminumOccurrence
Butler Estate MineIron, ManganesePast Producer
Wesson Manganese MineManganeseProspect1918
Wesson Mn Mine Big Grunt MineManganesePast ProducerResidual
ChildsburgIronUnknown
Cliett ProspectIronProspect
Fulton GapIronUnknown
H. SherrillsIronPast ProducerResidual
O F Luttrell ProspectIronOccurrence

Every working recorded in Talladega 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
Zubers1.0 miles23
Pleasant Hill1.9 miles23
Comerdale2.0 miles23
Bon Air2.1 miles19
Odena2.8 miles23
Boaz Corner2.8 miles19
Minor Terrace2.9 miles19
Oak Grove3.2 miles23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 144759. 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.