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Highland Park, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Troy census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36081. The Survey maps it on the Troy quadrangle.

Highland Park within Pike County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

65 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Highland Park between 1994 and 2020, burning about 382 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 11 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 burning19
Arson/incendiarism11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Railroad operations and maintenance9
Equipment and vehicle use4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural2
Smoking2

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
20 September 2003Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190918-12
29 August 1994Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 1994Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 July 1996Railroad operations and maintenance14 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
21 July 2000Naturalunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
9 June 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 June 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 36 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 36 workings within 5 miles of Highland Park: 21 unknowns, 10 occurrences, 3 prospects, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Clay. 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
Pik 4 Clay ProspectClayProspect
J A Curtis ProspectIronProspect
J Bryce Smith ProspectIronProspect
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown

Every working recorded in Pike 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
Dozier Estates0.6 miles8
Pine Forest Estates0.7 miles8
Ridgewood1.0 miles8
Country Club Estates1.3 miles8
Troy1.4 miles8
Woodland Hills1.5 miles8
Mountainbrook1.6 miles8
Green Oaks1.7 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1730430. 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.