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Mount Hope, Alabama

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Cordova census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35580. It stands on Standard Branch. The Survey maps it on the Cordova quadrangle. It stands 331 feet above sea level.

Mount Hope within Walker County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 19 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

439 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 439 fires within 5 miles of Mount Hope between 1994 and 2020, burning about 5,536 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 258 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/incendiarism258
Debris and open burning112
Missing data/not specified/undetermined34
Recreation and ceremony6
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Smoking6
Other causes5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Fireworks1

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 2006Arson/incendiarism20 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2003Arson/incendiarism3.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commission1768 NEW PARRISH HWY, AL
6 September 1999Debris and open burning1.2 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1995Debris and open burning2.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1995Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2019Arson/incendiarism12 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190904-5

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Walker County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Mount Hope: 5 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory), Coal. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Cordova Fire Clay DistrictFire Clay (Refractory), CoalProducerSEDIMENTARY
Cordova MineClayProducer
Cordova PitClayProducer
Drummond Coal Co., PitClayProducer
Shale PitClayProducer

Every working recorded in Walker 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
Big Ridge1.7 miles23
Deason Hill1.7 miles23
Gobblers Crossing1.8 miles19
America2.2 miles17
Corinth2.3 miles19
Cameron2.5 miles17
Standard2.8 miles17
Calumet3.0 miles17

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 HopeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6921279The 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 123224. 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.