Hillcrest, Alabama

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.

• 1948 USGS Brundidge quadrangle1:62500
• 1950 USGS Brundidge quadrangle1:62500
• 1953 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1954 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
• 1955 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Brundidge quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1962 USGS Brundidge quadrangle1:25000
• 1981 USGS Troy quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Hillcrest between 1994 and 2019, burning about 426 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Broad View
• Green Ridge
• Brundidge
• Windmill Hills
• Pronto
• Richland

Every fire recorded in Pike County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 75 workings within 5 miles of Hillcrest: 46 unknowns, 14 past producers, 11 occurrences, 4 prospects. 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.

Every working recorded in Pike County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1730385. 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.