Lennon Hill, Alabama

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Town Creek-Courtland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35672. It stands on Meadow Branch. The Survey maps it on the Town Creek quadrangle.

Lennon Hill within Lawrence County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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.

1936 USGS Town Creek quadrangle1:24000
1950 USGS Town Creek quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Town Creek quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Tuscumbia quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

65 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Lennon Hill between 1994 and 2017, burning about 840 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 18 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
Debris and open burning	21
Arson/incendiarism	18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Recreation and ceremony	5
Natural	1
Smoking	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
8 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	100 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160908-7
7 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160907-3
5 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	55 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence 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
Red Bank	3.1 miles	17
Fishermans Resort	3.3 miles	17
Town Creek	4.1 miles	15
Wheeler Dam Village	4.2 miles	17
Wheeler Dam Subdivision	4.6 miles	17
Rocky Hill (historical)	4.7 miles	14
Freeman Acres	4.8 miles	17
Rocky Hill	5.6 miles	14

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 Q122568233

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 156597. 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.