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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.

Gold Hill within Lee County

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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.

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.

James Ellington House, Oak Bowery Road vicinity, Gold Hill, Lee County, AL
James Ellington House, Oak Bowery Road vicinity, Gold Hill, Lee County, AL
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

51 since 1995

Regional 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/undetermined23
Debris and open burning18
Arson/incendiarism6
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190920-29
19 September 2011Debris and open burning12 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionCO RD 89, AL
30 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionECR-20120730-001
15 July 2004Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 June 2001Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 June 2011Power generation/transmission/distribution6.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionHWY 147, AL
27 May 2012Arson/incendiarism17 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionECR-20120527-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lee County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bruce Priester ProspectTitaniumOccurrence
James Dimension Stone QuarryStone, DimensionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lee County

Storms near this place

1 since 1995

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 1995HailGold Hill-Golf ball-size hail was reported in northern Lee County by the Emergency Management office.

Every storm recorded in Lee 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
Stonewall1.9 miles14
The Bottle3.3 miles14
Farmville4.0 miles14
Rowells Crossroads4.4 miles11
Ridge Grove4.4 miles11
Aubrey4.8 miles14
Middle Brooks Crossroads5.4 miles11
North Auburn5.5 miles14

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.