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Hatchet, Alabama

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Goodwater-Kellyton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35072. The Survey maps it on the Goodwater quadrangle. It stands 896 feet above sea level.

Hatchet within Coosa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 23 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

128 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 128 fires within 5 miles of Hatchet between 1994 and 2020, burning about 778 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 35 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 burning59
Arson/incendiarism35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Recreation and ceremony9
Equipment and vehicle use3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Natural1

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 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionECR-20120907-001
24 September 2019Debris and open burning4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190924-24
19 September 2010Natural2.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionECR-20150914-001
13 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 August 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 August 2011Arson/incendiarism25 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionCO RD 28, AL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coosa County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Hatchet: 9 prospects, 4 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Tin. 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
Dave Marbury Tin PropertyTinOccurrence
Prospect No. 12TinOccurrence1932
Prospect Number EightTinProspect
Prospect Number ElevenTinProspect
Prospect Number FifteenTinProspect
Prospect Number FourteenTinProspect
Prospect Number NineTinProspect
Prospect Number SixTinProspect
Prospect Number TenTinProspect
Prospect Number ThirteenTinProspect

Every working recorded in Coosa 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
Bradford1.8 miles14
Socapatoy2.9 miles14
Soleo3.7 miles23
Mount Olive4.0 miles23
Goodwater4.3 miles23
Kellyton4.6 miles14
Hanover5.2 miles23
Crewsville5.3 miles14

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 HatchetAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18348685The 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 159732. 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.