Gold Hill, Alabama
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Loachapoka-Roxana census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36879. The Survey maps it on the Waverly quadrangle.
On record in Gold Hill
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record
- James Ellington House, Oak Bowery Road vicinity, Gold Hillfederal building survey, 15 photographs
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 11 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1906 USGS Dadeville quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Waverly quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Opelika quadrangle1:100000
Photographs
1 photograph,Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
51 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Gold Hill between 1995 and 2020, burning about 401 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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/undetermined | 23 |
| Debris and open burning | 18 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 20 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20190920-29 |
| 19 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | 12 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | CO RD 89, AL |
| 30 July 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | ECR-20120730-001 |
| 15 July 2004 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 June 2001 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 24 June 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 6.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | HWY 147, AL |
| 27 May 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | 17 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | ECR-20120527-001 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Gold Hill: 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Dimension, Titanium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bruce Priester Prospect | Titanium | Occurrence | ||
| James Dimension Stone Quarry | Stone, Dimension | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
1 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gold Hill in 1 storm report in 1995: 1 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1995 | Hail | Gold Hill | - | Golf ball-size hail was reported in northern Lee County by the Emergency Management office. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stonewall | 1.9 miles | 14 | |
| The Bottle | 3.3 miles | 14 | |
| Farmville | 4.0 miles | 14 | |
| Rowells Crossroads | 4.4 miles | 11 | |
| Ridge Grove | 4.4 miles | 11 | |
| Aubrey | 4.8 miles | 14 | |
| Middle Brooks Crossroads | 5.4 miles | 11 | |
| North Auburn | 5.5 miles | 14 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 119087. 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.
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.





