Hirsch, Alabama

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Cottonton-Seale census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36871. It stands on Briar Creek. The Survey maps it on the Omaha quadrangle.

Hirsch within Russell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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.

1955 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Omaha quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Tuskegee quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

87 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 87 fires within 5 miles of Hirsch between 1994 and 2020, burning about 980 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 13 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/undetermined	35
Debris and open burning	18
Arson/incendiarism	13
Recreation and ceremony	6
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Smoking	3
Natural	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
2 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	ECR-20130917-001
15 September 2010	Smoking	20 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
21 August 1995	Railroad operations and maintenance	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
17 August 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
4 July 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
27 July 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	6.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160727-4

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Russell 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
McLendon	1.9 miles	10
Pittsview	2.5 miles	10
Cottonton	3.1 miles	10
Jernigan	4.1 miles	10
Glennville	4.2 miles	10
Sawokli (historical)	4.2 miles	10
Loflin	4.9 miles	10
Hooks	6.0 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156482. 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.