Hidden Forest, Alabama

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Tallassee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36093. It lies near Heck Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Claud quadrangle.

Hidden Forest within Elmore County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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.

1901 USGS Wetumpka quadrangle1:125000
1901 USGS Wetumpka quadrangle1:62500
1903 USGS Wetumpka quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1953 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Wetumpka quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1975 USGS Wetumpka SE quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Clanton quadrangle1:100000
1987 USGS Clanton quadrangle1:100000
1987 USGS Claud quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

196 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 196 fires within 5 miles of Hidden Forest between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,999 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 23 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	93
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	39
Arson/incendiarism	23
Recreation and ceremony	16
Equipment and vehicle use	14
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Natural	2
Other causes	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
5 September 2006	Arson/incendiarism	30 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2010	Debris and open burning	4.6 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 2019	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190914-2
12 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	1.2 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
31 August 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
31 August 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Elmore 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
Liberty	3.6 miles	11
Claud	4.0 miles	17
Ware	4.5 miles	12
Good Hope	4.6 miles	17
Friendship	4.9 miles	11
Glendale Acres	5.8 miles	17
Neman	5.9 miles	11
Floyd	6.0 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 137223. 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.