Sandtown, Alabama

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Windham Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35546. It lies near Rob Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Wiley quadrangle. It stands 663 feet above sea level.

Sandtown within Tuscaloosa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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.

1893 USGS Jasper quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1949 USGS Wiley quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1951 USGS Wiley quadrangle1:24000
1953 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Jasper quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

61 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Sandtown between 1994 and 2019, burning about 867 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 24 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
Arson/incendiarism	24
Debris and open burning	15
Natural	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Smoking	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
22 September 1999	Smoking	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 2010	Debris and open burning	31 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	20 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	45 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	20 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 1995	Smoking	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 August 2015	Natural	28 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	NWR-20150805-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tuscaloosa 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
Wiley	4.2 miles	17
Whitson	4.7 miles	17
Windham Springs	6.8 miles	20
Gorgas	8.1 miles	12
Three Forks	8.8 miles	19
New Lexington	9.0 miles	10
Skelton Bend Estates	11.0 miles	18
Samantha	13.0 miles	18

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 Sandtown	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22058547	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 157013. 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.