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Key Hill, Alabama

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Oakman census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35587. It lies near Hayes Hill. The Survey maps it on the Oakman quadrangle.

Key Hill within Walker County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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

214 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 214 fires within 5 miles of Key Hill between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,812 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 112 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/incendiarism112
Debris and open burning56
Missing data/not specified/undetermined28
Equipment and vehicle use7
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Recreation and ceremony4
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
6 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160906-9
6 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2006Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2000Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2000Arson/incendiarism15 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2016Debris and open burning4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160928-36

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Stephenson Crossing1.4 miles17
Coal Valley1.5 miles17
Hayes Crossing1.6 miles17
Oakman1.8 miles17
Marietta2.0 miles17
Patton2.1 miles17
Mountain Valley (historical)2.2 miles17
Corona2.6 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 142382. 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.