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Hope Hull, Alabama

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Hope Hull census division. The Survey maps it on the Montgomery South quadrangle. It stands 207 feet above sea level.

Hope Hull within Montgomery County

On record in Hope Hull

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 21 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

36 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Hope Hull between 1994 and 2020, burning about 205 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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 burning17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use5
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Natural1

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
5 September 1998Debris and open burning10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2010Debris and open burning10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190917-2
11 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20160911-1
9 August 2008Debris and open burning2.5 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionHILL TOP LANE, AL
25 August 2007Natural6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 August 2000Debris and open burning34 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 August 1995Debris and open burning3.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montgomery County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Hope Hull: 4 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Brewer Heights PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerQuartz
Dixie Sand & Gravel Co., Inc. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Dixie Sand & Gravel Co., Inc. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Shiloh PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerUnconsolidated Sediments

Every working recorded in Montgomery County

Storms near this place

7 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hope Hull in 7 storm reports between 1998 and 2009: 5 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. 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 2005HailHope Hull$22,000no account filed
April 2005Thunderstorm WindHope Hull$17,000A roof was torn off a business on US 31 near Hope Hull.
June 2005Funnel CloudHope Hull-A funnel cloud was sighted near the Hope Hull community.
March 2002HailHope Hull-Nickel size hail was reported at the Rodeway Inn along Interstate 65.
June 2009HailHope Hull-no account filed
May 2009HailHope Hull-no account filed
March 1998HailHope Hull-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Montgomery 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
Lagos del Sol0.8 miles21
McGehees0.9 miles21
Hunting Downs2.1 miles11
Southlawn2.5 miles21
Village West2.5 miles21
Windwood2.7 miles21
Southlawn East2.8 miles21
English Village2.8 miles21

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 Hope HullAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5899304The 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 120350. 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.