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Spring Garden, Alabama

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Spring Garden census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36272. The Survey maps it on the Piedmont quadrangle. 216 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 696 feet above sea level.

Spring Garden within Cherokee County

On record in Spring Garden

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

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Spring Garden fell from 238 to 216 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010238
2020216-22 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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.

Photographs

1 photograph,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

W. L. Westbrook Grocery Store, Intersection of County Route 27 & County Route 29, Spring Garden, Cherokee County, AL
W. L. Westbrook Grocery Store, Intersection of County Route 27 & County Route 29, Spring Garden, Cherokee County, AL
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

232 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 232 fires within 5 miles of Spring Garden between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,788 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 129 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/incendiarism129
Debris and open burning53
Missing data/not specified/undetermined32
Equipment and vehicle use6
Recreation and ceremony6
Natural4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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 2007Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreNational Forests in AlabamaZONE ABC #2
7 September 2008Arson/incendiarism36 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionOFF HWY 278, AL
6 September 1998Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190905-13
5 September 1997Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1996Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cherokee County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 87 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 87 workings within 5 miles of Spring Garden: 40 unknowns, 21 past producers, 14 prospects, 11 occurrences. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Manganese, Aluminum, Cobalt, Manganese. 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
DupontAluminum, Water, FreePast Producer1897
Harbour and Thompson ProspectsNickel, Cobalt, ManganeseOccurrence
Pope-Brittain DepositManganese, Iron, CobaltProspectWad
R. Stockdale PropertyCobalt, Iron, ManganesePast Producer
Rock Run DistrictIron, Manganese, CobaltPast ProducerWEATHERING RESIDUAL
Stewart MineClayProducer
Stock PropertyManganese, StoneProspect1949
Agusta MineManganese, Iron, CobaltPast Producer1918
Agusta Mine/Stockdale MineManganese, IronPast ProducerResidual
Hughes DepositsManganese, CobaltPast ProducerWad

Every working recorded in Cherokee County

Storms near this place

8 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Spring Garden in 8 storm reports between 1998 and 2018: 6 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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
May 2003Thunderstorm WindSpring Garden$8,000no account filed
August 2018FloodSpring Garden-Several roads flooded across far southern Cherokee County in the Spring Garden Community.
June 2016HailSpring Garden-Golf ball sized hail along County Road 10 near the town of Spring Garden.
April 2003HailSpring Garden-Penny to quarter size hail was reported across extreme southeast Cherokee County. The hail affected the communities of Spring Garden, Pleasant Gap, Rock Run, and Bluffton. The hail may have been larger in surrounding rural areas.
May 1999HailSpring Garden-Penny size hail was reported just northwest of Spring Garden.
April 1998HailSpring Garden-Dime size hail was reported in Spring Garden in the southern part of the county.
April 2013HailSpring Garden-no account filed
May 2003HailSpring Garden-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cherokee 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
McFrey Crossroads1.1 miles17
Pleasant Gap2.1 miles17
Sanford Springs3.3 miles18
Frog Mountain3.6 miles18
Mona (historical)4.5 miles18
Warner (historical)4.8 miles17
Rock Run4.9 miles18
Old Coloma5.2 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 Spring GardenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1275012The 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 160659. 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.