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Sandfort, Alabama

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Cottonton-Seale census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36875. The Survey maps it on the Seale quadrangle.

Sandfort within Russell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 20 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

123 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 123 fires within 5 miles of Sandfort between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,393 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 13 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 burning54
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Arson/incendiarism13
Recreation and ceremony10
Smoking8
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Natural7
Equipment and vehicle use4
Railroad operations and maintenance3

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
29 September 2016Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160929-3
28 September 2016Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160928-39
2 September 2010Debris and open burning12 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1998Natural25 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1998Natural5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 2002Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 August 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 August 2004Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Russell County

Storms near this place

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sandfort in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2018: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
February 2011Thunderstorm WindSandfort$2,000A few trees were downed.
July 2018HailSandfort-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Russell 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
Hyram1.7 miles20
Dudleys2.9 miles20
Colbert3.9 miles20
Seale4.0 miles20
Parkmanville4.4 miles20
Hatchechubbee5.4 miles9
Villula5.9 miles20
Lato6.5 miles20

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.

Wikidata item Q122591989The 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 158079. 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.