Mars Hill, Alabama

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Fruithurst census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36269. It stands on Hales Fork. The Survey maps it on the Oak Level quadrangle.

Mars Hill within Cleburne County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

1889 USGS Tallapoosa quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Tallapoosa quadrangle1:125000
1897 USGS Tallapoosa quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1953 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS Oak Level quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1975 USGS Oak Level quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Anniston quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

772 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 772 fires within 5 miles of Mars Hill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 22,624 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 531 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/incendiarism	531
Debris and open burning	191
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20
Recreation and ceremony	11
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Natural	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
9 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160909-5
8 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	7.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	30 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190905-5
5 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	100 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	100 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	20 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cleburne County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Mars Hill: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Brown Prospect	Mica	Prospect

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Piney Woods	2.3 miles	16
Bethel	2.9 miles	16
Oak Level	4.3 miles	16
Coldwater	5.1 miles	16
Borden Wheeler Springs	6.3 miles	17
Muscadine	7.3 miles	15
Borden Springs	7.3 miles	17
Palestine	7.5 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 162745. 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.