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Alabama Hill, Washington

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1975. It stands in the Bellingham census division. It lies in ZIP code area 98226. The Survey maps it on the Bellingham North quadrangle.

Alabama Hill within Whatcom County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

74 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Alabama Hill between 1993 and 2020, burning about 52 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 4 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
Recreation and ceremony25
Debris and open burning11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Fireworks8
Smoking6
Arson/incendiarism4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes2

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
9 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSTARRY
9 September 1997Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
7 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersBLACKBERRY YARD
7 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
5 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
30 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
23 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
2 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSTUART RD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Whatcom 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 Alabama Hill: 5 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Magnesite, Bentonite. 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
Lookout Mountain Bentonite DepositBentoniteOccurrence
Olivine MillMagnesitePast Producer
Griffin PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Whatcom 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
Forest Ridge0.5 miles17
Eureka1.0 miles17
Silver Beach1.1 miles17
Roosevelt1.1 miles17
Larson Mill1.5 miles17
Dewey1.7 miles17
Lakeway1.9 miles14
Geneva2.4 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1514090. 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.