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Love Hill, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Cottonwood census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36312. It stands on Webb Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cottonwood quadrangle. It stands 243 feet above sea level.

Love Hill within Houston County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

48 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Love Hill between 1994 and 2020, burning about 331 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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 burning26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Arson/incendiarism4
Recreation and ceremony3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Natural1
Fireworks1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
9 September 2019Debris and open burning6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190909-8
7 September 2005Arson/incendiarism10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2011Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission461 ANTIOCH CHURCH RD, AL
4 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20200804-2
28 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission428 BUDMOORE ROAD, AL
24 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.7 acresAlabama Forestry Commission222 BUDMOORE RD, AL
23 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined24 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSER-20140823-001
10 August 2010Debris and open burning13 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Houston County

Storms near this place

13 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Love Hill in 13 storm reports between 2012 and 2025: 10 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 flood. 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
July 2012Thunderstorm WindLove Hill$5,000Several trees and power poles were snapped around the Lovetown/Love Hill area. Monetary damage was estimated.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindLove Hill$3,000Power poles were blown down along Gene Terry Road.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindLove Hill$2,000Power lines and a tree were blown down around South County Road 33.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindLove Hill$1,000Trees were blown down at South Rocky Creek Road and Womack Road.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindLove Hill$1,000A tree was blown down on Antioch Church Road.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindLove Hill$500A tree was blown down across September Road.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindLove Hill-Trees were blown down across the road.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindLove Hill-A tree was blown down along Highway 55.
April 2022Thunderstorm WindLove Hill-A tree was blown down onto Dusty Lane.
July 2016Flash FloodLove Hill-County Road 33 at Cottonwood Road was reported underwater. Radar estimated that 3-4 inches of rain fell in 1 hour.
December 2016FloodLove Hill-Watertank road was flooded between Gene Terry Road and Fowler Road as a result of a long duration of moderate to heavy rainfall.
September 2015Flash FloodLove Hill-A deputy reported water covering the 3000 block of Gene Terry Road. A local pond in the area likely overflowed.
September 2015Thunderstorm WindLove Hill-A few trees were blown down near Lovetown.

Every storm recorded in Houston 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
Terry Crossroads0.9 miles8
Dupree2.3 miles7
Wilson Quarters4.8 miles9
Cottonwood4.9 miles8
Ashford5.0 miles7
Avon5.1 miles9
Keytons5.1 miles8
Memphis5.5 miles8

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 Love HillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18350558The 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 122057. 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.

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.