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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.

High Ridge within Bullock County

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

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.

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.

Howe-Roughton House, County Road 14, High Ridge, Bullock County, AL
Howe-Roughton House, County Road 14, High Ridge, Bullock County, AL
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
John Chancey House, High Ridge, Bullock County, AL
John Chancey House, High Ridge, Bullock County, AL
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Berry House, County Road 14, High Ridge, Bullock County, AL
Berry House, County Road 14, High Ridge, Bullock County, AL
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

80 since 1994

Regional 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/undetermined25
Arson/incendiarism21
Debris and open burning16
Recreation and ceremony6
Equipment and vehicle use6
Smoking2
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
3 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSER-20130903-001
28 September 2001Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2000Arson/incendiarism77 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionSER-20150920-002
8 August 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 August 1998Natural5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 July 1995Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 July 1995Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bullock 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
Mount Hillard1.4 miles8
Hooks Crossroads2.4 miles8
McGowan2.4 miles9
Simsville3.2 miles8
Almeria3.4 miles8
Bruceville3.5 miles8
Hector3.5 miles9
Shopton4.5 miles9

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.