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Elmhill Plantation, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Troy census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36081. It stands on Collins Branch. The Survey maps it on the Troy quadrangle.

Elmhill Plantation within Pike County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

71 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Elmhill Plantation between 1994 and 2020, burning about 315 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 10 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 burning23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Arson/incendiarism10
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural2

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 1997Smoking2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2003Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190918-12
12 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 1994Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 1994Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 1994Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 July 2003Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 32 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 32 workings within 5 miles of Elmhill Plantation: 15 unknowns, 13 occurrences, 2 prospects, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, 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
Pik 8 Clay ProspectClayProspect
J A Curtis ProspectIronProspect
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown

Every working recorded in Pike 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
Pinewood Estates1.6 miles8
Ridgewood1.8 miles8
Pine Ridge Estates2.0 miles8
Dozier Estates2.4 miles8
Woodland Hills2.5 miles8
Antioch2.6 miles8
Mountainbrook2.7 miles8
Highland Park2.8 miles8

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 Q122597211The 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 1730418. 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.