Highnote, Alabama

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Hartford census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36314. The Survey maps it on the Esto quadrangle. It stands 167 feet above sea level.

Highnote within Geneva County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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.

1950 USGS Esto quadrangle1:24000
1951 USGS Esto quadrangle1:24000
1954 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1959 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS Marianna quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1982 USGS Esto quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

116 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 116 fires within 5 miles of Highnote between 1992 and 2019, burning about 739 acres in total. None started naturally. 12 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
Railroad operations and maintenance	31
Debris and open burning	31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Equipment and vehicle use	14
Arson/incendiarism	12
Smoking	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Other causes	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
9 September 2010	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
8 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
30 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	TJ MITCHELL (30)
25 September 2019	Other causes	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	ST MARKS ST (30)
25 September 1993	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.5 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
12 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190912-7
12 September 2005	Debris and open burning	23 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Geneva 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
Millville (historical)	2.5 miles	11
Black	2.9 miles	11
Warwick (historical)	3.3 miles	11
Vanlandingham Mill	4.8 miles	12
Thurston	4.9 miles	12
Kellys Crossroads	6.0 miles	12
Whitaker (historical)	6.2 miles	11
Hartford	7.3 miles	11

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.

Wikipedia article on Highnote	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18349447	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 156473. 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.