Old Sparta, Alabama

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Castleberry census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36401. It stands on Autrey Creek. The Survey maps it on the Nymph quadrangle.

Old Sparta within Conecuh County

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.

1953 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Nymph quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

198 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 198 fires within 5 miles of Old Sparta between 1994 and 2020, burning about 2,077 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 33 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 burning	73
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	47
Arson/incendiarism	33
Equipment and vehicle use	18
Recreation and ceremony	15
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Smoking	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Natural	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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 1995	Recreation and ceremony	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 1999	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 1994	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 1997	Debris and open burning	25 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	30 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 August 1999	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
27 August 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Conecuh 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Jay Villa	2.2 miles	7
Nymph	3.0 miles	7
Fairview	4.0 miles	7
Castleberry	4.8 miles	7
Evergreen	5.1 miles	7
Centerville	6.3 miles	7
London	7.0 miles	7
Johnsonville	7.7 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 133160. 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.