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Spring Hill, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Eufaula census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36027. The Survey maps it on the Batesville quadrangle. It stands 374 feet above sea level.

Spring Hill within Barbour County

On record in Spring 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

5 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.

Fires near this place

60 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Spring Hill between 1994 and 2018, burning about 1,962 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 12 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 burning22
Arson/incendiarism12
Recreation and ceremony8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Natural5
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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 ceremony5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1995Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 1995Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 2004Equipment and vehicle use13 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Barbour County

Storms near this place

2 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Spring Hill in 2 storm reports between 2008 and 2013: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
April 2013Thunderstorm WindSpring Hill-A few trees were uprooted along County Road 89.
February 2008HailSpring Hill-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Barbour 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
Fairmount (historical)3.7 miles8
Comer4.0 miles8
Poplar Springs (historical)4.3 miles8
Cole Ridge (historical)4.7 miles8
Batesville5.0 miles8
Mount Gilead5.3 miles9
Hawkinsville6.6 miles9
Howe10.1 miles9

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 Spring HillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7580552The 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 155254. 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.

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.