Montgomery Hill, Alabama

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Stockton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36579. It stands on Slaughter Branch. The Survey maps it on the Tensaw quadrangle.

Montgomery Hill within Baldwin County

On record in Montgomery Hill

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Montgomery Hill Baptist Churchlisted 1988 · 0.1 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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.

1943 USGS Tensaw quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1944 USGS Tensaw quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1953 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Tensaw quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Atmore quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

144 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 144 fires within 5 miles of Montgomery Hill between 1994 and 2020, burning about 2,976 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 72 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	72
Debris and open burning	42
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	22
Natural	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
13 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20200813-1
7 July 1996	Natural	36 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 July 1996	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
14 July 2000	Arson/incendiarism	7.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
7 June 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 June 2006	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
25 June 2010	Power generation/transmission/distribution	2.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
15 June 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	SWR-20150615-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Baldwin 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
Tensaw	0.8 miles	12
Blacksher	4.1 miles	11
Latham	6.0 miles	12
Little River	7.6 miles	8
Redtown	8.4 miles	11
Serange	8.6 miles	11
Lottie	9.0 miles	11
Georgetown	9.5 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 134636. 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.