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Red Hill Heights, Alabama

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Birmingham census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35022. It stands on Cox Spring Branch. The Survey maps it on the McCalla quadrangle.

Red Hill Heights within Jefferson County

On record in Red Hill Heights

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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

210 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 210 fires within 5 miles of Red Hill Heights between 1994 and 2019, burning about 2,107 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 99 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
Arson/incendiarism99
Debris and open burning60
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Recreation and ceremony13
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Smoking5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural3

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 1995Smokingunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2019Debris and open burning80 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190906-5
6 September 1995Arson/incendiarism72 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1999Arson/incendiarism20 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1995Debris and open burning14 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2000Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 36 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 36 workings within 5 miles of Red Hill Heights: 24 occurrences, 8 past producers, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Clay, Manganese, 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
Dolonah QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Mine No. 53Fire Clay (Refractory)Producer
R C Coleman ProspectIron, ManganeseOccurrence
Bessemer MineClayProducer
Bessemer PitClayProducer
No NameIronPast ProducerHematite
O A Griffin ProspectIronOccurrence
Potter MineIronPast Producer
Potter No. 1 MineIronPast Producer
Raimund MineIronPast ProducerHematite

Every working recorded in Jefferson 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
McCalla0.6 miles20
Flint Hill1.1 miles20
Hickory Grove1.4 miles24
Chinn2.0 miles20
Pleasant Hill2.0 miles24
Rockdale2.5 miles24
Pine Crest2.5 miles24
McAdory2.6 miles20

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.

Wikidata item Q122559230The 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 144494. 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.