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Liberty Hill, Alabama

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Long Island census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35966. It stands on Maxwell Branch. The Survey maps it on the Flat Rock quadrangle. It stands 1,519 feet above sea level.

Liberty Hill within Jackson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 24 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

142 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 142 fires within 5 miles of Liberty Hill between 1994 and 2019, burning about 6,249 acres in total. None started naturally. 61 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/incendiarism61
Debris and open burning53
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony2

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
7 September 1999Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1999Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1998Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1998Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1999Arson/incendiarism20 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2010Arson/incendiarism60 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 1998Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Liberty Hill: 3 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Jac 1 Clay ProspectClayProspect
Jac 2 Clay ProspectClayProspect
Jac 8 Clay ProspectClayProspect

Every working recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this place

4 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Liberty Hill in 4 storm reports between 2022 and 2025: 4 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
May 2022Thunderstorm WindLiberty Hill$5,000Trees were snapped or uprooted on county road 174.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindLiberty Hill$4,000Trees were uprooted or snapped at 9714 county road 14.
January 2023Thunderstorm WindLiberty Hill$2,000Trees were snapped and uprooted at 216 CR 497.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindLiberty Hill$1,000A tree was down on CR 314 at CR 14 in the Flat Rock community.

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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
Overlook2.6 miles24
Sulphur Springs2.6 miles24
Old Fabius3.3 miles22
Cameronsville3.4 miles24
Fabius3.5 miles22
Flat Rock4.1 miles24
Yucca5.3 miles22
Higdon5.3 miles23

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 Q6541803The 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 156607. 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.

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.