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Hillsboro, Alabama

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Hillsboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35643. It stands on Prairie Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hillsboro quadrangle. 407 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 597 feet above sea level.

Hillsboro within Lawrence County

On record in Hillsboro

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Hillsboro fell from 552 to 407 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010552
2020407-145 (-26%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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

195 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 195 fires within 5 miles of Hillsboro between 1994 and 2019, burning about 3,207 acres in total. None started naturally. 105 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
Arson/incendiarism105
Debris and open burning55
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Recreation and ceremony5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Other causes1
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 1998Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2016Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160927-8
23 September 1999Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined18 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNOR-20140919-001
19 September 2003Railroad operations and maintenance8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1999Smokingunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1998Arson/incendiarism45 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2002Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence County

Storms near this place

15 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hillsboro in 15 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 10 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 funnel cloud, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2010HailHillsboro$50,000Golfball size hail was reported 5 miles west of Trinity.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindHillsboro$30,000Thunderstorm winds produced roof damage to multiple homes. One roof was blown off and power lines were knocked down in the area.
October 2010Tornado (EF1)Hillsboro$10,000An EF-1 tornado with winds up to 95 mph touched down briefly along Highway 20 near County Road 217 in Hillsboro. The tornado uprooted several trees and snapped several hardwood trees. The tornado lifted west of County Road 400.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindHillsboro$4,000Trees and powerlines were reported down at this location. Time was estimated from radar.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindHillsboro$3,500Two to three trees were knocked down and an inflatable slide was blown away. Time was estimated by radar.
September 1999Thunderstorm WindHillsboro$3,000Power lines were blown down in Hillsboro.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindHillsboro$1,000A tree was blown down over Beatrice Blvd.
January 2013Thunderstorm WindHillsboro$1,000A power pole was snapped by thunderstorm winds at the intersection of County Road 217 and Highway 20 in Hillsboro, Alabama.
March 2012Thunderstorm WindHillsboro$1,000Trees were knocked down on North Railroad Street.
February 2020Thunderstorm WindHillsboro-Trees and power lines were knocked down in Hillsboro.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindHillsboro-Thunderstorm winds knocked a large tree down and blew down multiple sheds at the intersections of Highway 20 and CR 217. Time was estimated by radar.
March 2011HailHillsboro-Nickel sized hail was reported.
February 2003Flash FloodHillsboro-Water over road on county road 217.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindHillsboro-mobile home slightly damaged by thunderstorm winds.
January 1999Funnel CloudHillsboro-A funnel cloud was reported near Hillsboro.

Every storm recorded in Lawrence 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
Reynolds1.1 miles15
Lovettville1.2 miles15
Fish Pond2.7 miles15
Wheeler3.2 miles15
Flower Hill3.4 miles15
Brides Hill3.5 miles15
Lakeview4.8 miles15
Jerusalem4.9 miles15

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 HillsboroAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q67342The 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 120137. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.