Flower Hill, Alabama

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Hillsboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35643. It stands on Mallard Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hillsboro quadrangle.

Flower Hill within Lawrence County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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.

1936 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:24000
1948 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:24000
1951 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Tuscumbia quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

86 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 86 fires within 5 miles of Flower Hill between 1994 and 2019, burning about 1,184 acres in total. None started naturally. 30 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
Arson/incendiarism	30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25
Debris and open burning	21
Recreation and ceremony	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Fireworks	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
27 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	NOR-20130928-001
19 September 2003	Railroad operations and maintenance	8.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	45 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	NOR-20150912-001
27 August 2010	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
22 August 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
19 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190819-9
11 August 2015	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	NOR-20150811-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence County

Storms near this place

6 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Flower Hill in 6 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Flower Hill	$8,000	Trees were reported down on CR 444. Time was estimated from radar data.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Flower Hill	$6,000	Trees were reported blown down near Mallard Creek.
May 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Flower Hill	$2,000	Thunderstorm winds produced damage at a residence along County Road 444. Steel beams were taken down and a porch roof was torn off. Patio furniture was also blown around and tree limbs were brought down.
May 2025	Tornado (EFU)	Flower Hill	-	A waterspout developed over Wheeler Reservoir south of the Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant. The waterspout moved east-northeast\|towards Round Island Creek Public Use Area crossing from Lawrence into Limestone County. At least two citizen videos from the Black Landing area confirmed the waterspout and its movement and were posted on social media.
December 2008	Flash Flood	Flower Hill	-	Heavy rainfall caused flash flooding over portions of highway 101 near Town Creek and Moulton and along portions of county road 222.
May 2008	Flash Flood	Flower Hill	-	Very heavy rainfall caused rising water to flow under recreational vehicles at the Mallard Creek Wildlife management area.

Every storm recorded in Lawrence 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Lakeview	1.5 miles	15
Fish Pond	2.7 miles	15
Reynolds	3.4 miles	15
Hillsboro	3.4 miles	15
Lovettville	3.6 miles	15
Jerusalem	4.1 miles	15
Brides Hill	4.7 miles	15
Wheeler	5.3 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156361. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.