Hamburg, Alabama

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Pine Apple census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36768. It stands on Bear Creek. The Survey maps it on the Oak Hill quadrangle.

Hamburg within Wilcox County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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.

1953 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Oak Hill quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Monroeville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Photographs

2 photographs, 1939

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.

Nurse Shamburg directs group of girls in making sick bed in clinic. Gee's Bend, Alabama
Wolcott, Marion Post, 1939. Library of Congress

Thelma Shamburg and Mrs. Spragg (or Sprague), NYA (National Youth Administration) state supervisor, helping Catherine Plumer and Sallie Titus at sewing machines in school economics room. Gee's Bend, Alabama
Wolcott, Marion Post, 1939. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

42 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Hamburg between 1994 and 2020, burning about 211 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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 burning	13
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Arson/incendiarism	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Smoking	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Natural	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
9 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20200908-2
30 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190930-19
3 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2000	Debris and open burning	5.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
12 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wilcox County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Hamburg: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
	Furman Quarry and Plant	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Wilcox 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
McBrydes	1.4 miles	7
Rock Springs	2.4 miles	7
Snow Hill	2.5 miles	11
Allenton	2.9 miles	7
Allenton Station	3.2 miles	7
Ackerville	4.0 miles	11
Furman	4.2 miles	11
Oak Hill	4.5 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 138481. 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.