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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.

Gosport within Clarke County

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

37 since 1995

Regional 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 burning20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
30 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionHWY 84 JUST INSIDE COUNTY LINE, AL
26 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20120926-001
17 September 2015Debris and open burning9.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20150917-002
1 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
26 July 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 July 2000Smoking4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 June 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.9 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 May 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionMACKEY ROAD, AL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clarke County

Storms near this place

4 since 1998

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2016LightningGosport$5,000Lightning caused damage to trees.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindGosport-High winds downed trees and power lines.
November 2019Thunderstorm WindGosport-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 1998HailGosport-Dime size hail was reported near Gosport.

Every storm recorded in Clarke 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
Suggsville5.8 miles7
Whatley8.0 miles7
Vashti8.8 miles7
Manila9.0 miles7
Barlow Bend9.2 miles7
Asbury11.0 miles7
Gainestown11.1 miles7
Union11.2 miles8

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 GosportAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5587431The 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.