Hobbie Farm, Alabama

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Hope Hull census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36105. The Survey maps it on the Davis Crossroads quadrangle.

Hobbie Farm within Montgomery 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.

1953 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Davis Crossroads quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

47 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Hobbie Farm between 1994 and 2017, burning about 242 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 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	21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Smoking	6
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Arson/incendiarism	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1

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
14 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	SPRAGE JUNCTION ROAD, AL
28 August 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20170828-2
24 August 2000	Smoking	2.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
24 August 2000	Smoking	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
18 August 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20170818-2
17 August 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	6.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	BUTLER MILL RD , AL
16 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
18 July 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	ECR-20130718-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montgomery 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
Roxana	1.6 miles	11
Tharin	2.2 miles	11
Le Grand	2.5 miles	11
Robinson Crossroads	3.0 miles	10
Canaan	3.2 miles	11
Rolling Lakes	3.5 miles	10
Doral Estates	4.0 miles	10
Pine Needles	4.1 miles	11

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 Q122568625

The 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 120157. 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.