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Hillswood, Alabama

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Tuscaloosa census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35404. The Survey maps it on the Cottondale quadrangle.

Hillswood within Tuscaloosa County

On record in Hillswood

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

8 surveys from 19 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

82 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 82 fires within 5 miles of Hillswood between 1994 and 2017, burning about 357 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 21 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 burning24
Arson/incendiarism21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Railroad operations and maintenance10
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1

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
18 September 2007Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2010Smoking2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1998Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 1995Debris and open burning1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2007Railroad operations and maintenance4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20170829-1
24 August 2007Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
21 August 1996Recreation and ceremony8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tuscaloosa County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Hillswood: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
American MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Tuscaloosa 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
Laurel Hills0.0 miles19
Woodland Hills0.2 miles19
Woodland Park0.3 miles19
Berkley Hills0.3 miles19
Woodland Pines0.4 miles19
Banks Villa East0.5 miles19
The Staffords0.6 miles19
Woodland Terrace0.7 miles19

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.

Wikidata item Q122548536The 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 148233. 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.