Saddle Hill, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Elba census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36323. It stands on Coon Creek. The Survey maps it on the Danleys Crossroads quadrangle.

Saddle Hill within Coffee County

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.

1953 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Danleys Crossroads quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

64 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Saddle Hill between 1994 and 2020, burning about 422 acres in total. None 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 burning	25
Arson/incendiarism	11
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Recreation and ceremony	4
Smoking	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2008	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	CR 84, AL
23 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	8.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190923-6
19 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190917-1
13 September 2008	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2019	Debris and open burning	2.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190911-11
30 August 1999	Arson/incendiarism	6.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coffee County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Saddle Hill: 15 unknowns, 5 occurrences, 1 past producer. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
SE Alabama Iron District	Iron	Past Producer	1929
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown

Every working recorded in Coffee 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
Danleys Crossroads	3.2 miles	8
Pine Level	3.3 miles	8
Lee	3.7 miles	8
Curtis	4.2 miles	8
Elba	4.4 miles	8
Zoar	5.4 miles	8
Shady Grove	6.8 miles	8
Newby	6.9 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1699937. 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.