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Sardis, Alabama

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Sardis census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36701. The Survey maps it on the Sardis quadrangle. It stands 246 feet above sea level.

Sardis within Dallas County

On record in Sardis

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

88 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 88 fires within 5 miles of Sardis between 1994 and 2020, burning about 797 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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 burning45
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Equipment and vehicle use10
Arson/incendiarism5
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
7 September 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1995Recreation and ceremony2.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190930-9
30 September 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use3.7 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use30 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dallas County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Sardis: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
S & G Strip PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Dallas County

Storms near this place

4 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sardis in 4 storm reports between 1997 and 2011: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
April 2000HailSardis$25,000Golfball to softball size hail fell from near Sardis to near Polk. The large hail knocked out several car windows and also several windows in homes. One home had severe siding damage from the hail.
April 1997Thunderstorm WindSardis$5,000Several large tree limbs were down in Sardis and blocked roadways. Sardis is in the eastern part of the county.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindSardis$1,000Trees were knocked down along County Road 139.
February 2001HailSardis-Nickel size hail was reported in rural southern Dallas County.

Every storm recorded in Dallas 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
Berlin2.3 miles13
Mount Nebo3.5 miles13
Casey3.7 miles12
Polk5.3 miles12
Belknap5.8 miles12
Kings5.9 miles11
Cahaba6.4 miles13
Tyler6.7 miles12

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 SardisAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4272004The 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 126399. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.