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Walnut Hill, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Dadeville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36853. The Survey maps it on the Ponders quadrangle.

Walnut Hill within Tallapoosa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

Fires near this place

76 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 76 fires within 5 miles of Walnut Hill between 1994 and 2019, burning about 675 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 21 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 burning30
Arson/incendiarism21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Recreation and ceremony5
Natural3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Fireworks1
Smoking1

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
15 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 1997Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 2006Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 1997Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 August 2006Natural8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 August 2000Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 July 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionECR-20120704-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tallapoosa County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Walnut Hill: 3 occurrences, 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Mica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Thomas MineMicaPast Producer
Dent Hill ProspectGoldOccurrenceGold
Farrow Hill Devil's BackboneGoldPast ProducerVein
Farrow Hill ProspectGoldOccurrenceGold
Long Branch ProspectGoldOccurrence1842, 1852
Silver Hill MineGoldPast Producer1835

Every working recorded in Tallapoosa County

Storms near this place

4 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Walnut Hill in 4 storm reports between 1999 and 2026: 2 hail, 2 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
August 2011Thunderstorm WindWalnut Hill$5,000Several trees and powerlines were knocked down the Walnut Hill near the intersection of County Roads 50 and 49.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindWalnut Hill-Several trees and power lines were downed across Stillwaters Highway.
May 1999HailWalnut Hill-Dime to nickel size hail was reported in the Walnut Hill area near SR 50.
January 2007HailWalnut Hill-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Tallapoosa 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
Ponders0.6 miles11
Sardis1.5 miles11
Barnesville1.6 miles11
Blue Creek1.8 miles11
Thornton2.1 miles10
Still Waters2.7 miles11
Union3.4 miles11
Bama Park3.5 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 157213. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.