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Oak Hill, Alabama

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Geraldine census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35962. It stands on Oak Hill Branch. The Survey maps it on the Painter quadrangle.

Oak Hill within DeKalb County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 22 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

70 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Oak Hill between 1998 and 2019, burning about 318 acres in total. None started naturally. 10 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
Debris and open burning39
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Arson/incendiarism10
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1
Other causes1

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
7 September 2016Debris and open burning10 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160907-7
30 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNOR-20140930-002
28 September 2016Debris and open burning1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160928-21
28 September 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160928-13
24 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190924-18
24 September 2019Debris and open burning6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190924-22
23 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNOR-20150923-001
18 September 2010Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in DeKalb 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 Oak Hill: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
UnnamedIronUnknown

Every working recorded in DeKalb County

Storms near this place

6 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oak Hill in 6 storm reports between 2011 and 2023: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2023Thunderstorm WindOak Hill$20,000A tree was knocked down onto a house and car along CR 104. Time estimated by radar.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindOak Hill$2,000A tree was blown down off of CR 391.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindOak Hill$1,000Trees were knocked down across the road at CR 34 at CR 9. Time estimated by radar.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindOak Hill$1,000Trees were knocked down on CR 482.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindOak Hill$1,000Trees were knocked down on CR 104.
May 2022Tornado (EF0)Oak Hill-At 10:28 AM on Wednesday, May 25th 2022, an EF-0 tornado touched down near an open-walled garage and caused minor roof damage to the metal roofing panels. The tornado then tracked north-northwest, crossing CR-34 and directly hitting an open-walled chicken house. While most of the roof was damaged, the open walls allowed for the tornado to more easily loft portions of the roof and cause damage to metal roofing panels, so a lower-end estimate of 70 mph was given. This was the maximum width identifiable in the damage pattern for the weak tornado, as roughly two-thirds of the building had roof damage. The tornado then continued north-northwest, uprooting a few trees before rapidly lifting. Due to waterlogged soils from antecedent heavy rainfall, a low-end wind estimate of 73 mph was provided for the uprooted trees. Overall, the tornado lasted less than a minute as it tracked a quarter-mile from south-southeast to the north-northwest embedded within a QLCS.

Every storm recorded in DeKalb 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
Painter2.6 miles22
Crossville2.7 miles21
Geraldine2.9 miles22
Lathamville2.9 miles22
Skirum3.3 miles21
Rogers3.7 miles22
Whiton3.8 miles22
Kilpatrick4.1 miles22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 150434. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.