Spring Hill, Alabama

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Butler census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36921. It sits by McCartys Bluff. The Survey maps it on the Ararat quadrangle. It stands 364 feet above sea level.

Spring Hill within Choctaw County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 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 Hattiesburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Hattiesburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1971 USGS Ararat quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Hattiesburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Waynesboro quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

28 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Spring Hill between 1994 and 2019, burning about 259 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 6 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	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Arson/incendiarism	6
Recreation and ceremony	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Natural	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
5 September 2007	Natural	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 1999	Smoking	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	15 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190917-25
24 August 2000	Arson/incendiarism	20 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
17 July 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	SWR-20130718-001
17 July 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 June 2002	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
29 May 1994	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Choctaw 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
Ararat	1.5 miles	12
Slater	3.8 miles	12
Pleasant Hill	4.3 miles	12
Lou	4.4 miles	12
Thornton Springs	5.2 miles	12
Wimbly	6.3 miles	12
Womack Hill	7.0 miles	12
Chappell Hill	7.3 miles	12

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 Hill	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7580557	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 127236. 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.