Hunting Downs, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Hope Hull census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36043. The Survey maps it on the Snowdoun quadrangle.

Hunting Downs within Montgomery County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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 Montgomery quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Letohatchee quadrangle1:62500
1957 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Snowdoun quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

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 Hunting Downs between 1994 and 2020, burning about 132 acres in total. 1 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 burning	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Recreation and ceremony	2
Smoking	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Natural	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
5 September 1998	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190921-10
21 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190921-21
21 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	5.3 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190921-20
17 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190917-2
11 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160911-1
9 August 2008	Debris and open burning	2.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	HILL TOP LANE, AL
25 August 2007	Natural	6.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montgomery 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 Hunting Downs: 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Dixie Sand & Gravel Co., Inc. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	Shiloh Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Unconsolidated Sediments

Every working 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Lagos del Sol	1.4 miles	21
Hope Hull	2.1 miles	21
McGehees	2.5 miles	21
Snowdoun	2.7 miles	11
Rolling Acres	3.2 miles	11
Canaan	3.4 miles	11
Tharin	4.1 miles	11
Wiley	4.3 miles	21

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 Q111908898

The 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 142630. 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.