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Spocari, Alabama

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Demopolis census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36732. It stands on French Creek. The Survey maps it on the Demopolis quadrangle.

Spocari within Marengo County

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

38 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Spocari between 1994 and 2020, burning about 143 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Debris and open burning8
Recreation and ceremony5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism3
Natural2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
28 September 2003Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2014Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20140924-004
18 September 2000Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2000Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2002Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 July 2006Natural15 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
13 July 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 June 1996Railroad operations and maintenance10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marengo County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Spocari: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General. 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
Demopolis Quarry & Cement PlantLimestone, GeneralProducer
Tate QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerQuartz
Tolar QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Marengo County

Storms near this place

3 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Spocari in 3 storm reports between 2012 and 2022: 1 tornado, 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
October 2022HailSpocari-Pictures and video of large hail falling along Highway 43 in the city of Demopolis.
October 2014Thunderstorm WindSpocari-Roof blown off a laundromat in the town of Demopolis.
December 2012Tornado (EF1)Spocari-The EF-1 tornado touched down west of US Hwy 43 near Marengo Farms Road. The tornado tracked northeastward across US Highway 43 where it caused minor tree damage in Memorial Gardens Cemetery, Old Springhill Road and Reed Drive. The tornado continued northeastward and produced damage along Sunset Road where the strongest winds occurred. This is where 2 mobile homes were completely destroyed and multiple others sustained minor to moderate damage. Also one church on US Hwy 80 had partial roof damage. The tornado then crossed US Hwy 80 and lifted just before crossing into Hale County. Hundreds of trees were either snapped off or were uprooted along the path.

Every storm recorded in Marengo 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
Baptist Hill1.0 miles12
Knoxwood1.1 miles12
Demopolis1.2 miles12
Rockcut1.5 miles12
Shortleaf2.3 miles12
Alfalfa2.7 miles12
Old Spring Hill5.9 miles10
Salt Well7.5 miles11

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 Q122544624The 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 157091. 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.