Hopper, Alabama

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.

• 1885 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:125000
• 1888 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:125000
• 1892 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:125000
• 1895 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:125000
• 1903 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
• 1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1958 USGS Altoona quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
• 1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
• 1975 USGS Altoona quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1984 USGS Guntersville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 110 fires within 5 miles of Hopper between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,791 acres in total. None started naturally. 59 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:

• Redbud
• Alice
• Clayborn
• Harrisville
• Mays
• Aurora

Every fire recorded in Etowah County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 31 workings within 5 miles of Hopper: 12 past producers, 11 prospects, 8 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Manganese, Iron, Nickel, Cobalt, Cobalt. 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 Etowah 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 120392. 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.