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Sealy Springs, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Cottonwood census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36320. The Survey maps it on the Cottonwood quadrangle.

Sealy Springs within Houston County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

59 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Sealy Springs between 1993 and 2020, burning about 442 acres in total. 2 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 burning22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony5
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Smoking3
Arson/incendiarism3
Natural2

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
9 September 2019Debris and open burning6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190909-8
20 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service32/SELLERS ROAD-0544
20 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Service32/SELLERS ROAD #2-0547
18 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20200804-2
29 August 2011Debris and open burning8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission18195 COTTONWOOD RD, AL
28 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission428 BUDMOORE ROAD, AL
24 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.7 acresAlabama Forestry Commission222 BUDMOORE RD, AL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Houston County

Storms near this place

4 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sealy Springs in 4 storm reports between 2018 and 2023: 4 thunderstorm wind. 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 2020Thunderstorm WindSealy Springs$5,000Power lines were blown down and a shed was moved on Ramer Loop just off Stateline Road.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindSealy Springs$5,000Strong winds blew part of a structure into a utility pole on Waddell Road.
September 2018Thunderstorm WindSealy Springs$3,000Trees and power lines were blown down on the 1400 block of Mt Zion Road in Cottonwood.
March 2023Thunderstorm WindSealy Springs-A tree was blown down on Waldo Meadows Road near Barnes Road.

Every storm recorded in Houston 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
Cottonwood0.8 miles8
Madrid4.5 miles8
Hodgesville4.6 miles8
Terry Crossroads5.0 miles8
Five Points5.4 miles8
Grangeburg5.5 miles8
State Line5.6 miles8
Love Hill5.8 miles8

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 Q122568115The 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 126507. 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.