Hepsidam, Alabama

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 2000. It stands in the Moulton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35650. It stands on Montgomery Creek. The Survey maps it on the Grayson quadrangle.

Hepsidam within Lawrence County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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.

1936 USGS Moulton quadrangle1:48000
1936 USGS Mt Hope quadrangle1:62500
1940 USGS Mt Hope quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1960 USGS Grayson quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Haleyville quadrangle1:100000
2000 USGS Grayson quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

94 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 94 fires within 5 miles of Hepsidam between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,059 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 50 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
Arson/incendiarism	50
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	29
Debris and open burning	5
Natural	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Recreation and ceremony	3

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
5 September 1999	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	National Forests in Alabama	PINHOOK
5 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	National Forests in Alabama	RIDGE ROAD
19 September 1998	Recreation and ceremony	3.0 acres	National Forests in Alabama	WILDERNESS
17 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	NOR-20150917-002
10 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160910-8
25 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	NOR-20120825-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence 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
Youngtown	4.9 miles	18
Pinhook	5.2 miles	18
Wren	5.4 miles	18
Aldridge Grove	6.5 miles	17
Hickory Grove	7.6 miles	18
Camp Spring (historical)	8.0 miles	18
Landersville	8.2 miles	18
Muck City	8.4 miles	18

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.

Wikidata item Q122569841

The 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 161827. 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.