High Ridge, Alabama
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Inverness census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36089. The Survey maps it on the China Grove quadrangle.
On record in High Ridge
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
Surveyed buildings and structures 3 records
- Berry House, County Road 14, High Ridgefederal building survey, 5 photographs
- Howe-Roughton House, County Road 14, High Ridgefederal building survey, 4 photographs
- John Chancey House, High Ridgefederal building survey, 2 photographs
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1955 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS China Grove quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Tuskegee quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Photographs
3 photographs,Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
80 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of High Ridge between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,594 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 21 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 21 |
| Debris and open burning | 16 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | SER-20130903-001 |
| 28 September 2001 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 27 September 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 77 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 20 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | SER-20150920-002 |
| 8 August 2000 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 27 August 1998 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 July 1995 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 1.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 July 1995 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Hillard | 1.4 miles | 8 | |
| Hooks Crossroads | 2.4 miles | 8 | |
| McGowan | 2.4 miles | 9 | |
| Simsville | 3.2 miles | 8 | |
| Almeria | 3.4 miles | 8 | |
| Bruceville | 3.5 miles | 8 | |
| Hector | 3.5 miles | 9 | |
| Shopton | 4.5 miles | 9 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 155098. 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.




