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Perdue Hill, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Monroeville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36445. The Survey maps it on the Mexia quadrangle. It stands 384 feet above sea level.

Perdue Hill within Monroe County

On record in Perdue Hill

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

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.

Photographs

2 photographs,

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.

Masonic Hall, U.S. Highway 84 (moved from AL, Claiborne), Perdue Hill, Monroe County, AL
Masonic Hall, U.S. Highway 84 (moved from AL, Claiborne), Perdue Hill, Monroe County, AL
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Old Frame House, U.S. Highway 84 (State Highway 12), Perdue Hill, Monroe County, AL
Old Frame House, U.S. Highway 84 (State Highway 12), Perdue Hill, Monroe County, AL
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

56 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Perdue Hill between 1994 and 2020, burning about 483 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 4 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 burning25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Equipment and vehicle use6
Arson/incendiarism4
Recreation and ceremony4
Natural3
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2006Arson/incendiarism10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20170929-1
1 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 August 2019Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190803-2
28 August 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 July 2009Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission10196 HWY 84 W, AL
4 July 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
26 July 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Perdue Hill: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Ballard PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Claiborne Lime PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this place

3 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Perdue Hill in 3 storm reports between 1996 and 2004: 1 hail, 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2004Thunderstorm WindPerdue Hill$8,000High winds from a thunderstorm blew down several trees near Perdue Hill.
December 2002Tornado (F0)Perdue Hill$8,000A weak tornado briefly touched down near Perdue Hill. Several trees were blown down.
December 1996HailPerdue Hill-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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
Claiborne2.2 miles7
Old Salem4.9 miles8
Manistee5.0 miles9
Hixon5.4 miles8
Mexia5.6 miles8
Mexboro6.5 miles8
Mexia Crossing6.7 miles8
Fountain7.1 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 Perdue HillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7167717The 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 152870. 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.