Sand Spring, Alabama

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Athens census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35613. It stands on Hauskin Branch. The Survey maps it on the Ardmore quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Sand Spring within Limestone County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 22 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.

1888 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1936 USGS Ardmore quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Ardmore quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

76 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 76 fires within 5 miles of Sand Spring (historical) between 1994 and 2020, burning about 564 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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	36
Recreation and ceremony	15
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Smoking	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Arson/incendiarism	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
4 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	15 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1999	Smoking	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1999	Debris and open burning	140 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 2016	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160914-5
14 September 1998	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 2002	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
27 August 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Limestone 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
Oak Grove	0.6 miles	22
Bethel	1.6 miles	22
Caro (historical)	2.2 miles	22
Pisgah	2.5 miles	22
Thach	2.5 miles	20
Wooley Springs (historical)	3.0 miles	22
Pine Dale	3.1 miles	22
Holland Gin	3.8 miles	20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 137901. 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.