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Harper Hill, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Greensboro Northeast census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35474. The Survey maps it on the Ingram quadrangle.

Harper Hill within Hale County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

Fires near this place

104 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 104 fires within 5 miles of Harper Hill between 1994 and 2020, burning about 543 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 22 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 burning34
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Arson/incendiarism22
Equipment and vehicle use10
Smoking6
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Natural2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
9 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionNWR-20150909-001
8 September 2002Debris and open burning15 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2015Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNWR-20150907-001
4 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionNWR-20140924-002
24 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hale 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
Havana2.7 miles11
Ingram3.9 miles11
Dominick6.0 miles11
Stewart6.2 miles9
Hogglesville6.4 miles11
New Prospect6.7 miles9
Cypress6.9 miles9
Akron7.0 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 159723. 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.