Hobson, Alabama

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Wedowee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36274. The Survey maps it on the Wedowee quadrangle. It stands 1,099 feet above sea level.

Hobson within Randolph County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1899 USGS Wedowee quadrangle1:125000
1902 USGS Wedowee quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1953 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Wedowee quadrangle1:24000
1978 USGS La Grange quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

135 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 135 fires within 5 miles of Hobson between 1994 and 2019, burning about 652 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 25 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	59
Arson/incendiarism	25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20
Recreation and ceremony	16
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Smoking	2
Natural	1
Fireworks	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
8 September 2010	Debris and open burning	9.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2019	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190906-19
6 September 1998	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190930-7
23 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	CO.RD.59, AL
21 September 2003	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2003	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Randolph 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
West	1.7 miles	10
Corbin	1.7 miles	10
Haywood	1.9 miles	10
Mount Pleasant	2.3 miles	10
White Signboard Crossroad	2.5 miles	11
Tennant	2.8 miles	10
Potash	2.9 miles	10
Midway	3.0 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 Hobson	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5875214	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 140225. 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.