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Saragossa, Alabama

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 2000. It stands in the Townley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35578. It stands on Dry Branch. The Survey maps it on the Nauvoo quadrangle. It stands 541 feet above sea level.

Saragossa within Walker County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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

197 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 197 fires within 5 miles of Saragossa between 1994 and 2020, burning about 2,227 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 75 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/incendiarism75
Debris and open burning64
Missing data/not specified/undetermined36
Recreation and ceremony11
Equipment and vehicle use6
Natural2
Smoking1
Other causes1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
8 September 1995Recreation and ceremony1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1999Natural15 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20160906-5
6 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.4 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2018Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20180903-7
27 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190927-7

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Walker County

Storms near this place

20 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Saragossa in 20 storm reports between 1995 and 2021: 13 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 1 flood. 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
June 2009Thunderstorm WindSaragossa$50,000Numerous trees were blown down in a swath across the middle of Walker County, from the Blackwater and Macedonia communities, eastward to AL-157. Fallen trees damaged at least one home, one mobile home, and one camper.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindSaragossa$27,000Several trees were blown down in and around Saragossa.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindSaragossa$5,000A few trees were blown down across the northern portion of the county.
April 2009Thunderstorm WindSaragossa$5,000Thunderstorm winds produced sporadic, isolated, tree damage in several locations of northern Walker County, from near the area around the Walker County Airport, northeastward to the Fall City Road area near the Winston County line. Single trees were reported blown down at each location.
February 2011Thunderstorm WindSaragossa$3,000A barn was damaged on Duncan Road, between Highway 5 and Highway 195.
February 2011Thunderstorm WindSaragossa$2,000Several trees were blown down on Scott Cemetery Rd.
May 2011HailSaragossa$1,000Golf ball sized hail broke a few windows out of a mobile home, in the Saragossa community.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindSaragossa$1,000Several trees were blown down in the Saragossa community.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindSaragossa$1,000Several trees were blown down near the Saragossa Community.
April 2021HailSaragossa-Quarter size hail reported at Lupton Junior High School.
April 2017Thunderstorm WindSaragossa-Several trees uprooted near the intersection of County Road 5 and Edgil Road.
April 2017Thunderstorm WindSaragossa-Several trees uprooted near the community of Lupton.
December 2015FloodSaragossa-Residual flooding from heavy rain that fell during Christmas Day. Several roads and homes flooded from rising waters along the Sipsey Fork, Mulberry Fork, and the Blackwater Creek.
October 2014HailSaragossa-Hail up to the size of quarters reported along Highway 195 just south of the Winston county line.
March 2013Thunderstorm WindSaragossa-Several trees were snapped along Alabama Highway 5, near Lupton School. Trees were also reported down and blocking Prospect Road, causing damage to a home.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindSaragossa-A tree was reported down across Langston Road in the Cedrum community.
March 1995HailSaragossa-Three-quarter inch hail (dime-size) was reported by Walker County Emergency Management at Saragossa or about four miles northwest of Jasper.
March 2011HailSaragossa-no account filed
April 2009HailSaragossa-no account filed
April 2009Thunderstorm WindSaragossa-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Walker 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
Edgil2.4 miles18
Lupton2.6 miles18
Macedonia3.2 miles18
Prospect3.4 miles18
Gamble3.7 miles18
Cedrum4.1 miles18
Holly Grove4.3 miles18
Pocahontas4.8 miles18

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 SaragossaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22058549The 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 160568. 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.