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Hillcrest, Alabama

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Uniontown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36786. The Survey maps it on the Uniontown East quadrangle.

Hillcrest within Perry County

On record in Hillcrest

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

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.

Fires near this place

75 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of Hillcrest between 1994 and 2020, burning about 737 acres in total. None started naturally. 10 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/undetermined31
Debris and open burning17
Arson/incendiarism10
Equipment and vehicle use8
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
7 September 2005Debris and open burning34 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2019Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190904-4
30 September 2006Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNWR-20140921-001
18 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionNWR-20150918-002
16 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionNWR-20150916-001
16 September 2002Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionNWR-20150915-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Perry 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
The Village1.3 miles9
Ellawhite1.6 miles9
Tayloe2.0 miles9
Uniontown2.1 miles11
Rabbityard2.5 miles11
Freetown4.8 miles11
Sugarville5.9 miles9
Vaiden7.2 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156474. 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.