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Hugo, Alabama

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Thomaston census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36783. The Survey maps it on the Thomaston West quadrangle. It stands 161 feet above sea level.

Hugo within Marengo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

Fires near this place

27 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Hugo between 1994 and 2020, burning about 351 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was 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 burning13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Recreation and ceremony4
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Arson/incendiarism1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1

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
20 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20140920-001
16 September 2010Railroad operations and maintenance187 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionGULF STATES RAILROAD FIRE
11 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 August 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionHWY 28, AL
8 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionAL HWY 28, AL
28 July 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
13 July 1996Recreation and ceremony1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 May 2007Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marengo County

Storms near this place

1 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hugo in 1 storm report in 2014: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
April 2014Thunderstorm WindHugo-Large trees were reported down in the Hugo community.

Every storm recorded in Marengo 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
Half Chance3.1 miles10
Thomaston3.4 miles10
Old White Hall (historical)4.3 miles9
Crenshaw (historical)4.5 miles9
Octagon5.6 miles9
Williamsburg (historical)5.7 miles9
Wootens (historical)6.1 miles9
Calvary6.2 miles9

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 HugoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5933660The 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 156507. 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.