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Windmill Hills, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Brundidge census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36010. The Survey maps it on the Brundidge quadrangle.

Windmill Hills within Pike County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

53 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Windmill Hills between 1994 and 2019, burning about 176 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 burning20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Arson/incendiarism6
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1

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 1997Smoking2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190930-12
20 September 2003Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190918-12
17 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission7904 HIGHWAY 10, AL
16 September 2019Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190916-18
12 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSER-20120912-001
12 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 74 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 74 workings within 5 miles of Windmill Hills: 41 unknowns, 16 past producers, 13 occurrences, 4 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Clay. 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
Pik 8 Clay ProspectClayProspect
G P Taylor ProspectIronProspect
Miss Annie Bass ProspectIronUnknown
R L Godwin ProspectIronProspect
R L Godwinn ProspectIronProspect
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown

Every working recorded in Pike 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
Hillcrest0.8 miles11
Brundidge0.8 miles11
Broad View0.9 miles11
Green Ridge1.6 miles11
Pronto2.0 miles7
Antioch4.0 miles8
Richland5.2 miles8
Shiloh5.6 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1730393. 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.