BlockNew 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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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
75 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of New Mount Hebron between 1994 and 2019, burning about 407 acres in total. None started naturally. 23 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 | 23 |
| Debris and open burning | 17 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 14 |
| Smoking | 11 |
| 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:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of New Mount Hebron: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Silica, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Swilley's Bend Quarry | Silica, Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Quartz |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Hebron | 1.6 miles | 9 | |
| Crawford Fork | 3.7 miles | 9 | |
| West Greene | 4.7 miles | 7 | |
| New West Greene | 5.0 miles | 8 | |
| Lizzieville | 6.1 miles | 9 | |
| Clinton | 7.0 miles | 14 | |
| Boligee | 8.0 miles | 9 | |
| Allison | 8.2 miles | 15 |
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.
| Wikidata item Q122565700 | 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 156787. 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.