Rocky Hill, Alabama

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Town Creek-Courtland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35618. The Survey maps it on the Courtland quadrangle.

Rocky Hill within Lawrence County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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.

1936 USGS Courtland quadrangle1:24000
1951 USGS Courtland quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Courtland quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Tuscumbia quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

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.

Rocky Hill, State Highway 20, Courtland, Lawrence County, AL
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

72 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 72 fires within 5 miles of Rocky Hill between 1994 and 2019, burning about 1,062 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 33 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/incendiarism	33
Debris and open burning	21
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Recreation and ceremony	2
Smoking	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Natural	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
8 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	100 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160908-7
6 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	30 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
27 August 1998	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
21 August 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
17 August 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
24 July 2010	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
8 June 2002	Arson/incendiarism	40 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lawrence 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Courtland Downs	0.9 miles	14
North Courtland	0.9 miles	14
Rocky Hill (historical)	1.1 miles	14
Courtland	2.0 miles	14
Rigdom	2.5 miles	14
Terry Heights	3.3 miles	14
Town Creek	3.3 miles	15
Terrytown	3.8 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156986. 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.