Hodgesville, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Madrid census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36301. The Survey maps it on the Cottonwood quadrangle.

Hodgesville within Houston County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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 Dothan quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Cottonwood quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

63 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Hodgesville between 1994 and 2019, burning about 355 acres in total. 3 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 burning	27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Recreation and ceremony	4
Natural	3
Arson/incendiarism	3
Smoking	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2010	Debris and open burning	19 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1999	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
1 August 2010	Natural	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
30 July 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9.9 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	SER-20140730-001
30 July 1996	Smoking	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
4 June 2002	Natural	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Houston County

Storms near this place

13 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hodgesville in 13 storm reports between 2007 and 2023: 11 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Hodgesville	$6,000	Trees were blown down around Hodgesville with a power pole blocking a road. The monetary damage figure provided is a rough estimate.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Hodgesville	$4,000	Five trees were blown down in the Hodgesville area. Monetary damage was estimated.
March 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Hodgesville	$3,000	A small shed collapsed with some of the tin strewn across the road.
September 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Hodgesville	$3,000	Trees were blown down around Hodgesville. The monetary damage figure provided is a rough estimate.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Hodgesville	$3,000	Some trees and power lines were down.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Hodgesville	$1,000	A few trees were blown down across the southern portion of the county near Hodgesville.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Hodgesville	-	Trees were blown down along County Road 33 at Smithville Road.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Hodgesville	-	A couple of trees were blown down in the Hodgesville area.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Hodgesville	-	A tree was blown down over the railroad tracks in Hodgesville.
April 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Hodgesville	-	A large tree was blown down.
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Hodgesville	-	Trees were blown down near Hodgesville.
December 2016	Flood	Hodgesville	-	St. Mary Road was flooded between D. Hodge Road and Fletcher Smith Road as a result of a long duration of moderate to heavy rainfall.
December 2016	Flood	Hodgesville	-	Sewell Road (dirt road) was flooded between D. Hodge Road and Fletcher Smith Road as a result of a long duration of moderate to heavy rainfall.

Every storm recorded in Houston 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
Keytons	1.8 miles	8
Big Creek	3.4 miles	8
Madrid	3.4 miles	8
Memphis	3.5 miles	8
Five Points	4.0 miles	8
Ward Acres	4.1 miles	8
Cottonwood	4.3 miles	8
Garretts Crossroads	4.3 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 120178. 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.

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.