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Rose Hill, Alabama

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Rose Hill-Gantt census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36028. The Survey maps it on the Dozier quadrangle. It stands 433 feet above sea level.

Rose Hill within Covington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

61 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Rose Hill between 1994 and 2020, burning about 342 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 11 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 burning21
Arson/incendiarism11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Equipment and vehicle use7
Recreation and ceremony6
Natural3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking1

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
21 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 August 2000Natural8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 August 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 August 2007Naturalunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 August 1996Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 August 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 July 2019Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190707-4
17 July 1995Naturalunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Covington County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 41 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 41 workings within 5 miles of Rose Hill: 22 occurrences, 19 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown

Every working recorded in Covington County

Storms near this place

9 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rose Hill in 9 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 lightning, 1 tornado. 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
November 2001Tornado (F0)Rose Hill$15,000A weak tornado produced a path of damage to trees in a wooded area southwest through south of the community.
January 1999LightningRose Hill$5,000Lightning struck a house near Rose Hill. The lightning caused a fire which was quickly put out. The house suffered minimal damage.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindRose Hill$4,000High winds blew several trees and power lines down near County Road 43 just west of Rose Hill.
April 1997Thunderstorm WindRose Hill$1,500Trees and power lines were blown down in and around Rose Hill.
January 2023Thunderstorm WindRose Hill-High winds caused minor damage to an abandoned trailer.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindRose Hill-High winds downed several trees and power lines.
July 2004HailRose Hill-Golfball size hail was reported near Rose Hill. No damage from the large hail was reported.
March 2023HailRose Hill-no account filed
April 2003HailRose Hill-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Covington 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
Five Points2.0 miles7
Coldwater4.6 miles8
Antioch5.0 miles8
Eoda5.3 miles8
Clearview5.7 miles8
Straughn5.9 miles8
Harmony6.6 miles8
Cedar Grove6.8 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 Rose HillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22058546The 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 125934. 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.