Spring Hill, Alabama

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Evergreen census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36401. The Survey maps it on the Brooklyn quadrangle. It stands 305 feet above sea level.

Spring Hill within Conecuh County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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
1982 USGS Brooklyn quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

118 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 118 fires within 5 miles of Spring Hill between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,272 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 30 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	42
Arson/incendiarism	30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Natural	4
Recreation and ceremony	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Smoking	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Other causes	1
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
5 September 2000	Natural	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2002	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2010	Other causes	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1998	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Conecuh 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
Mount Union	1.9 miles	7
Melrose	2.9 miles	8
Paul	3.8 miles	8
Centerville	5.4 miles	7
Old Town	5.5 miles	7
Cohassett	5.5 miles	8
Travis Bridge	6.3 miles	7
Johnsonville	6.5 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 Spring Hill	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7580558	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 133187. 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.