Hannah, Alabama

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Section census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35771. It stands on Chisenhall Branch. The Survey maps it on the Dutton quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Hannah within Jackson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 21 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.

1886 USGS Stevenson quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Stevenson quadrangle1:125000
1895 USGS Stevenson quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1936 USGS Dutton quadrangle1:24000
1947 USGS Dutton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1950 USGS Dutton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Chickamauga quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

106 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 106 fires within 5 miles of Hannah (historical) between 1995 and 2020, burning about 1,420 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 28 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	38
Arson/incendiarism	28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	22
Recreation and ceremony	8
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
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 1998	Arson/incendiarism	6.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
9 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	6.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2010	Debris and open burning	18 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160903-3

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson 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
Rock City	0.4 miles	21
Bellview	1.0 miles	21
Duncan Crossroads	1.7 miles	21
Talley (historical)	2.2 miles	21
Hancock Crossroads	2.7 miles	21
Macedonia	3.2 miles	20
Section	3.9 miles	21
Davistown	4.1 miles	20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 139183. 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.