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Liberty Hill, Alabama

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Fruithurst census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36272. It stands on Dry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Piedmont SE quadrangle. It stands 945 feet above sea level.

Liberty Hill within Cleburne County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

137 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 137 fires within 5 miles of Liberty Hill between 1992 and 2019, burning about 5,755 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 82 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/incendiarism82
Debris and open burning24
Natural9
Recreation and ceremony8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Equipment and vehicle use2
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
30 September 1993Arson/incendiarism82 acresNational Forests in Alabamanot named
24 September 2019Arson/incendiarism29 acresNational Forests in AlabamaVIGO
24 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionNER-20150924-003
19 September 2010Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreNational Forests in AlabamaPOWERLINE
17 September 2000Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresNational Forests in AlabamaCROOKED BRIDGE #1
17 September 2000Arson/incendiarism24 acresNational Forests in AlabamaCROOKED BRIDGE #2
17 September 2000Arson/incendiarism120 acresNational Forests in AlabamaCROOKED BRIDGE #3
15 September 2010Debris and open burning69 acresNational Forests in AlabamaGREENHOUSE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cleburne County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Liberty Hill: 2 unknowns, 1 prospect, 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Manganese. 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
Woodward Iron PropertyManganeseProspect1942
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
William Cowan MineIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Cleburne 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
Grantley1.5 miles16
Oak Level5.0 miles16
Borden Wheeler Springs7.2 miles17
Piney Woods7.6 miles16
Coldwater7.6 miles16
Borden Springs7.8 miles17
Mount Pleasant8.2 miles17
Palestine9.1 miles17

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 Liberty HillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6541790The 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 159938. 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.