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Oak Hill, Alabama

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Pine Apple census division. The Survey maps it on the Oak Hill quadrangle. 14 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 397 feet above sea level.

Oak Hill within Wilcox County

On record in Oak 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 1 record

Surveyed buildings and structures 2 records

Population over time

9 figures

Oak Hill fell from 159 to 14 between 1940 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
1940159
1950123-36 (-23%)
1960116-7 (-6%)
197086-30 (-26%)
198063-23 (-27%)
199028-35 (-56%)
200037+9 (+32%)
201026-11 (-30%)
202014-12 (-46%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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.

Photographs

1 photograph,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Ramsey-Jones-Bonner House, State Route 10, Oak Hill, Wilcox County, AL
Ramsey-Jones-Bonner House, State Route 10, Oak Hill, Wilcox County, AL
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

53 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Oak Hill between 1994 and 2020, burning about 664 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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 burning20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Equipment and vehicle use9
Arson/incendiarism6
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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
8 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20200908-2
6 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190906-4
30 September 2019Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190930-19
27 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 1997Debris and open burning7.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1997Arson/incendiarism111 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1997Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wilcox 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
Allenton1.9 miles7
Caledonia2.1 miles7
Rosebud3.2 miles7
Allenton Station3.2 miles7
Schuster4.4 miles7
Hamburg4.5 miles7
Darlington4.7 miles7
Neenah5.1 miles7

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 Oak HillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q65480The 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 152749. 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.