Maple Hill, Alabama

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Madison Crossroads census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35739. It stands on Sweetwater Branch. The Survey maps it on the Ardmore quadrangle.

Maple Hill within Madison County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 22 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.

1888 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1936 USGS Ardmore quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Ardmore quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

71 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Maple Hill between 1994 and 2020, burning about 620 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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	30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Recreation and ceremony	10
Arson/incendiarism	8
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Smoking	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	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 2007	Smoking	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 2010	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2015	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	NOR-20150915-001
15 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
29 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Tennessee Division of Forestry	BEDDINGFIELD #2
28 August 2011	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Tennessee Division of Forestry	BEDDINGFIELD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Storms near this place

10 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Maple Hill in 10 storm reports between 2007 and 2022: 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 tornado. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Maple Hill	$10,000	A few trees and power lines were downed by thunderstorm winds at Pulaski Pike and Macedonia road.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Maple Hill	$2,000	Damaging straight-line winds knocked trees down at Macedonia Road and Pulaski Pike.
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Maple Hill	$1,000	A large tree limb was knocked down and metal roofing was peeled off of a home near the intersection of Highway 53 and Ready Section Road. Time estimated by radar.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Maple Hill	$400	A tree was knocked down across Ready Section Road just east of Highway 53. Large tree limbs were covering McKee and Toney School Roads.
May 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Maple Hill	-	Two pine trees were knocked down onto Ready Section Road at Highway 53.
March 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Maple Hill	-	Power lines were knocked down just east of Ardmore. A tree was also knocked down blocking a medical vehicle in the same area.
April 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Maple Hill	-	A tree was knocked down across Macedonia Road.
May 2011	Tornado (EF0)	Maple Hill	-	This tornado, again with peak winds of 85 mph, continued its path from Limestone County along Ready Section Road, snapping and uprooting trees until lifting north of Bethel Road just west of state highway 53.
April 2007	Hail	Maple Hill	-	Quarter-sized hail was reported.
April 2007	Hail	Maple Hill	-	Quarter-sized hail was reported.

Every storm recorded in Madison 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
Ready Crossing	1.9 miles	21
Browns Corner	2.8 miles	21
Bobo	2.9 miles	21
Toney	3.0 miles	21
Madison Crossroads	3.4 miles	21
Elkwood	3.8 miles	21
Carter Grove	3.8 miles	21
Five Points	4.6 miles	21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 147091. 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.