Hoboken, Alabama

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Sweet Water census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36782. It stands on Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Nanafalia quadrangle. It stands 249 feet above sea level.

Hoboken within Marengo 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
1978 USGS Nanafalia quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Selma quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

69 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 69 fires within 5 miles of Hoboken between 1994 and 2019, burning about 460 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 was 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	25
Recreation and ceremony	9
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Natural	1
Other causes	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
29 September 2000	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2019	Debris and open burning	2.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190928-6
24 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190912-12
27 August 2000	Debris and open burning	40 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
7 June 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
22 June 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	JULY LANE, AL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marengo 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
Nicholsville	1.8 miles	10
Exmoor	2.1 miles	10
Marengo	4.0 miles	10
Vangale	4.0 miles	10
Hotamville	4.1 miles	8
Lasca	4.4 miles	10
Coxheath	4.6 miles	10
Sweet Water	5.0 miles	10

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.

Wikipedia article on Hoboken	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14679150	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 120165. 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.