Hillsboro, Alabama

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the New Market census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35761. It lies near Graveyard Hill. The Survey maps it on the New Market quadrangle.

Hillsboro within Madison County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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.

1888 USGS Scottsboro quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Scottsboro quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1936 USGS New Market quadrangle1:24000
1949 USGS New Market quadrangle1:24000
1951 USGS New Market quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

54 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Hillsboro between 1997 and 2015, burning about 147 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 burning	26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Arson/incendiarism	3
Smoking	2

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
8 September 1999	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	30 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 1999	Smoking	under an acre	Tennessee Division of Forestry	not named
11 September 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 2010	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Tennessee Division of Forestry	HAYNES
23 August 2008	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	4569 WINCHESTER RD, AL
22 August 2008	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Tennessee Division of Forestry	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Storms near this place

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hillsboro in 2 storm reports in 2009: 1 thunderstorm wind, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsboro	$2,000	Thunderstorm winds blew down a tree and some other large branches along Winchester Road.
May 2009	Flash Flood	Hillsboro	-	Heavy rainfall caused flash flooding which closure of Old Mountain Fork Road near Winchester Road.

Every storm recorded in Madison 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
Plevna	1.6 miles	20
New Market	2.0 miles	20
Mint Spring	2.5 miles	20
Steele Crossing	2.8 miles	20
Union Grove	3.2 miles	20
Roseboro	3.3 miles	20
Fairview	3.7 miles	20
Walnut Grove	3.9 miles	20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156476. 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.