Gosport, Alabama
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Grove Hill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36482. It stands on Mackey Branch. The Survey maps it on the Claiborne quadrangle. It stands 112 feet above sea level.
On record in Gosport
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
Woodlandslisted 1980
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 7 printed sheetsMatched 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 Andalusia quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Claiborne quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Monroeville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
37 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Gosport between 1995 and 2017, burning about 376 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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 burning | 20 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | HWY 84 JUST INSIDE COUNTY LINE, AL |
| 26 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | SWR-20120926-001 |
| 17 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | 9.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | SWR-20150917-002 |
| 1 September 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 26 July 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 17 July 2000 | Smoking | 4.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 18 June 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.9 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 8 May 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.5 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | MACKEY ROAD, AL |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gosport in 4 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 lightning. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2016 | Lightning | Gosport | $5,000 | Lightning caused damage to trees. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gosport | - | High winds downed trees and power lines. |
| November 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Gosport | - | A large microburst produced significant tree damage on Westlock Dam Site Road on the west side of the Alabama river. 100 to 200 trees were snapped or uprooted, many of which were softwood. The extent of damage to the trees is consistent with wind speeds of 80 to 100 mph. |
| April 1998 | Hail | Gosport | - | Dime size hail was reported near Gosport. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Suggsville | 5.8 miles | 7 | |
| Whatley | 8.0 miles | 7 | |
| Vashti | 8.8 miles | 7 | |
| Manila | 9.0 miles | 7 | |
| Barlow Bend | 9.2 miles | 7 | |
| Asbury | 11.0 miles | 7 | |
| Gainestown | 11.1 miles | 7 | |
| Union | 11.2 miles | 8 |
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 Gosport | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5587431 | 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 119188. 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.
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.



