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Hatchechubbee, Alabama

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Hurtsboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36858. It stands on King Branch. The Survey maps it on the Hatchechubbee quadrangle. It stands 318 feet above sea level.

Hatchechubbee within Russell County

On record in Hatchechubbee

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

175 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 175 fires within 5 miles of Hatchechubbee between 1994 and 2020, burning about 4,345 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 36 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 burning76
Arson/incendiarism36
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Recreation and ceremony10
Equipment and vehicle use10
Smoking7
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Other causes1

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
6 September 2002Arson/incendiarism10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined35 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2016Debris and open burning20 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160927-12
24 September 2019Debris and open burning30 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190924-27
21 September 2010Debris and open burning80 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined34 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190920-34
20 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190920-4

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Russell 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
Colbert2.2 miles20
Wende3.5 miles9
Dudleys4.6 miles20
Sandfort5.4 miles20
Hyram5.9 miles20
Persons5.9 miles8
Villula5.9 miles20
Hooks5.9 miles10

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on HatchechubbeeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14679131The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 119839. 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.