Mount Hebron, Alabama

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Mantua-West Greene census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35443. The Survey maps it on the Boligee quadrangle. It stands 266 feet above sea level.

Mount Hebron within Greene County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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.

1953 USGS Meridian quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Meridian quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Meridian quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Boligee quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1984 USGS De Kalb quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

81 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 81 fires within 5 miles of Mount Hebron between 1994 and 2019, burning about 421 acres in total. None started naturally. 21 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	21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18
Debris and open burning	18
Smoking	14
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Other causes	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
7 September 2010	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 1999	Smoking	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 1999	Smoking	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2015	Other causes	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	NWR-20150923-001
22 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160921-6
18 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1995	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greene 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
New Mount Hebron	1.6 miles	9
West Greene	3.4 miles	7
Crawford Fork	4.1 miles	9
New West Greene	4.5 miles	8
Clinton	5.4 miles	14
Lizzieville	6.5 miles	9
Allison	8.2 miles	15
Boligee	8.6 miles	9

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 Mount Hebron	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22058518	The 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 156744. 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.