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Red Hill, Alabama

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Hayden census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35063. The Survey maps it on the Creel quadrangle.

Red Hill within Blount County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 23 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

164 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 164 fires within 5 miles of Red Hill between 1994 and 2019, burning about 3,539 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 52 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
Arson/incendiarism52
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Recreation and ceremony10
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking3
Natural3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Other causes2
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 2010Smoking2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1995Smoking20 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2007Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2000Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190928-9
26 September 2019Natural12 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190926-10

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Blount 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 Red Hill: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Blo 7 Clay ProspectClayProspect

Every working recorded in Blount 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
Sloan1.7 miles23
Danzler3.3 miles23
Reids5.1 miles23
Sulpher Springs6.0 miles23
Smoke Rise6.5 miles23
Bent Tree8.7 miles23
Blount Springs9.3 miles23
Hayden9.5 miles23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 135149. 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.