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Snow Hill, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Pine Apple census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36768. The Survey maps it on the Carlowville quadrangle. It stands 226 feet above sea level.

Snow Hill within Wilcox County

On record in Snow Hill

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

43 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Snow Hill between 1994 and 2020, burning about 436 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 was 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 burning15
Equipment and vehicle use10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Recreation and ceremony4
Natural2
Arson/incendiarism1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
9 September 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2000Debris and open burning5.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 August 2010Debris and open burning32 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
12 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
12 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 July 1996Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wilcox 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 Snow Hill: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
Furman Quarry and PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Wilcox County

Storms near this place

1 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Snow Hill in 1 storm report in 2003: 1 hail. 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
May 2003HailSnow Hill-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wilcox 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
McBrydes1.1 miles7
Furman2.1 miles11
Rock Springs2.4 miles7
Hamburg2.5 miles7
Ackerville3.6 miles11
Allenton Station5.2 miles7
Allenton5.3 miles7
Darlington6.8 miles7

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 Snow HillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7548234The 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 155244. 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.