Hobson, Alabama

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.

• Wylam Fire Stationlisted 1990 · 0.6 miles away

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.

• 1889 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:125000
• 1892 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:125000
• 1895 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
• 1904 USGS Birmingham Coal District quadrangle1:62500
• 1906 USGS Birmingham Coal District quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1906 USGS Birmingham Special quadrangle1:62500
• 1907 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
• 1953 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1956 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Adamsville quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1975 USGS Adamsville quadrangle1:24000
• 1984 USGS Birmingham North quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1993 USGS Adamsville quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 141 fires within 5 miles of Hobson between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,362 acres in total. None started naturally. 63 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• McDonald Chapel
• Sherman Heights
• West Ensley
• Exum
• Falls Junction
• Minniesville

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Hobson: 3 occurrences, 3 producers, 2 plants. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 120166. 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.