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.
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
Snow Hill Normal and Industrial Institutelisted 1995
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 11 printed sheetsMatched 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 Montgomery quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Carlowville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Selma quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1987 USGS Carlowville quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
43 since 1994Regional 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 burning | 15 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 10 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1995 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 September 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 September 2000 | Debris and open burning | 5.5 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 September 1995 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 22 August 2010 | Debris and open burning | 32 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 12 August 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.5 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 12 August 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 July 1996 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Furman Quarry and Plant | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this place
1 since 2003Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2003 | Hail | Snow Hill | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| McBrydes | 1.1 miles | 7 | |
| Furman | 2.1 miles | 11 | |
| Rock Springs | 2.4 miles | 7 | |
| Hamburg | 2.5 miles | 7 | |
| Ackerville | 3.6 miles | 11 | |
| Allenton Station | 5.2 miles | 7 | |
| Allenton | 5.3 miles | 7 | |
| Darlington | 6.8 miles | 7 |
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 Hill | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7548234 | The 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.





