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Hobdy, Alabama

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Louisville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36048. The Survey maps it on the Louisville quadrangle.

Hobdy within Barbour County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

45 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Hobdy between 1994 and 2019, burning about 117 acres in total. 2 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 burning23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Recreation and ceremony4
Arson/incendiarism3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural2
Smoking1
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
6 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190906-15
3 September 1995Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20170922-1
21 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 1994Railroad operations and maintenance2.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2008Equipment and vehicle use7.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Barbour County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 74 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 74 workings within 5 miles of Hobdy: 25 unknowns, 24 prospects, 21 past producers, 4 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Clay. 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
Bar 1 Clay ProspectClayProspect
Bar 17 Clay ProspectClayProspect
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown

Every working recorded in Barbour County

Storms near this place

1 since 2026

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hobdy in 1 storm report in 2026: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2026Thunderstorm WindHobdy-Several uprooted trees and snapped limbs on both sides of CR 27 just north of CR 31.

Every storm recorded in Barbour 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
Pratts1.6 miles7
Louisville2.5 miles7
Baxters4.8 miles7
Lindsey5.1 miles7
Bells Crossroads5.6 miles7
Greens Crossroads6.1 miles7
Clayton6.1 miles8
Boot Hill7.2 miles7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156484. 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.

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.