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Pebble Hill, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Coy-Fatama census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36726. It stands on Bones Branch. The Survey maps it on the Camden South quadrangle. It stands 194 feet above sea level.

Pebble Hill within Wilcox County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

137 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 137 fires within 5 miles of Pebble Hill between 1994 and 2020, burning about 458 acres in total. 4 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 burning58
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Equipment and vehicle use20
Recreation and ceremony6
Arson/incendiarism6
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Natural4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Smoking3
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
6 September 2016Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160906-11
30 September 2019Debris and open burning8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190930-28
3 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190903-5
3 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 1999Debris and open burning1.2 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190922-31
21 September 2000Natural2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wilcox 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 Pebble Hill: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Zirconium, Kyanite, Titanium, Metal. 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
Alabama River Gravel-Wilcox CoSand and Gravel, Construction, Zirconium, Kyanite, Titanium, MetalProducerPlacer

Every working 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
Dry Forks2.9 miles8
Nellie3.3 miles7
Rockwest4.5 miles8
Camden4.5 miles8
Coal Bluff5.1 miles7
Fatama6.3 miles7
Asahel6.4 miles7
Bellview6.6 miles8

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 Pebble HillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q19987489The 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 156867. 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.