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Spring Hill, Alabama

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Logan census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35057. The Survey maps it on the West Point quadrangle. It stands 971 feet above sea level.

Spring Hill within Cullman County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

113 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 113 fires within 5 miles of Spring Hill between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,036 acres in total. None started naturally. 46 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
Arson/incendiarism46
Debris and open burning36
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
7 September 1998Arson/incendiarism10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2010Arson/incendiarism33 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNER-20140929-002
29 September 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2005Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190922-21
22 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cullman 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
Bethel1.4 miles17
Baldwin2.1 miles17
West Point3.1 miles17
Central3.5 miles11
Pine Hill3.6 miles17
Southern Pines4.0 miles17
Dripping Springs4.2 miles11
Logan4.7 miles11

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 Q7580561The 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 127237. 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.