Sprague, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Pike Road census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36069. The Survey maps it on the Snowdoun quadrangle.

Sprague within Montgomery County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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.

1953 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Letohatchee quadrangle1:62500
1957 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Snowdoun quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

66 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 66 fires within 5 miles of Sprague between 1994 and 2020, burning about 540 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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 burning	27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Smoking	9
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Recreation and ceremony	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Natural	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
14 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	SPRAGE JUNCTION ROAD, AL
13 September 1998	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
28 August 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20170828-2
24 August 2000	Smoking	2.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
24 August 2000	Smoking	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
18 August 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20170818-2
17 August 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	6.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	BUTLER MILL RD , AL
16 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montgomery County

Storms near this place

4 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sprague in 4 storm reports between 2005 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
February 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Sprague	$5,000	Several trees were blown down across southern portion of the county.
August 2005	Flash Flood	Sprague	$2,000	High water covered US Highway 331 between Ada and Sellers. The road was temporarily impassable.
December 2024	Tornado (EF1)	Sprague	-	A tornado began along Hobbie Road and Hillabee Road with a few uprooted trees and broken limbs. Tree damage gradually became more concentrated as the tornado moved northeastward, with a home south of Ridgeland Farms Road having the top of a pine tree fall on it. Several trees were uprooted across wooded areas before the tornado arrived at Mount Zion Road, where numerous pine trees were snapped or uprooted, one of which fell into the corner of a double-wide manufactured home. Significant splatter was observed on the east facing side of the double-wide. A couple sheds nearby sustained damage as well. Numerous trees were uprooted northeastward across wooded areas and pastures to Woodley Road and further to U.S. 231. Here, the BBQ Hill business sustained roof damage and had numerous pine trees snapped or uprooted on the premises. More trees were downed and an outbuilding was damaged along Old Carter Hill Road as the tornado dissipated. Maximum estimated winds were 100 mph.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Sprague	-	Numerous trees uprooted across southern Montgomery County.

Every storm recorded in Montgomery 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
Ada	1.9 miles	11
Le Grand	2.0 miles	11
Red Level	2.5 miles	10
Robinson Crossroads	2.5 miles	10
Roxana	3.5 miles	11
Pine Needles	3.7 miles	11
Pine Acres	4.0 miles	11
Hobbie Farm	4.4 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 127206. 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.