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Hudson Settlement, Alabama

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 2000. It stands in the Jasper census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35503. The Survey maps it on the Manchester quadrangle.

Hudson Settlement within Walker County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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

182 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 182 fires within 5 miles of Hudson Settlement between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,457 acres in total. None started naturally. 66 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
Arson/incendiarism66
Debris and open burning57
Missing data/not specified/undetermined32
Recreation and ceremony19
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking1
Fireworks1
Other causes1

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
8 September 1995Recreation and ceremony1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20160906-5
6 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.4 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2007Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1999Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Walker County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Hudson Settlement: 2 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
Glen Allen No. 2 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Patton PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Walker 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
Five Points0.9 miles18
Manchester1.5 miles18
Camak Mills (historical)1.6 miles18
Oak Hill1.9 miles17
Gamble1.9 miles18
Hillsdale2.1 miles17
South Lowell2.3 miles18
Edgil3.2 miles18

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.

Wikidata item Q122562647The 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 159824. 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.