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Fleming Hills, Alabama

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Redstone Arsenal census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35808. The Survey maps it on the Huntsville quadrangle.

Fleming Hills within Madison County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 25 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

10 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Fleming Hills between 1993 and 2011, burning about 81 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Debris and open burning2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
30 June 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresWheeler National Wildlife RefugeFM 98-5
21 June 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 June 2008Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionREDSTONE ARSENAL, AL
12 June 2011Equipment and vehicle use25 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionHUNTSVILLE BROWNS FERRY / MALONE ROAD, AL
28 March 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresWheeler National Wildlife RefugeFM 98-3
26 March 1995Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 February 1994Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
2 February 1993Equipment and vehicle use18 acresWheeler National Wildlife RefugeTESTAREA1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Fleming Hills: 2 producers, 1 past producer, 1 plant, 1 unknown. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Molybdenum. 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
South Parway Quarry No. 1Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Teledyne Wah Chang/Huntsville, Ala.MolybdenumUnknown
Wheeler Lake MineClayProducer
Baker TerminalSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Base PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPlant

Every working recorded in Madison 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
Byrd Springs0.4 miles25
Parkway Estates0.5 miles25
Haysland Estates0.6 miles25
Bel Air Estates1.1 miles25
Lily Flagg1.1 miles25
Flemington Heights1.3 miles25
Fleming Meadows1.6 miles25
Bluewood Estates1.6 miles25

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 Q122564404The 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 118414. 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.