Spring Hill, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Carbon Hill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35578. The Survey maps it on the Carbon Hill quadrangle. It stands 659 feet above sea level.

Spring Hill within Walker County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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 Birmingham quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Carbon Hill quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1984 USGS Jasper quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

163 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 163 fires within 5 miles of Spring Hill between 1994 and 2020, burning about 2,101 acres in total. None started naturally. 77 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/incendiarism	77
Debris and open burning	44
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25
Recreation and ceremony	6
Smoking	4
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Other causes	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
6 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	9.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	7.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2016	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160928-14
28 September 1999	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 1999	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 Walker 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
Dogtown	2.1 miles	11
Slicklizzard	3.1 miles	11
Flatwood	3.7 miles	11
Nauvoo	3.8 miles	18
Clarke	4.5 miles	11
Eldridge	4.9 miles	11
Kansas	5.2 miles	11
Carbon Hill	6.2 miles	11

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 Q7580569	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 157092. 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.