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.
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
- W. L. Westbrook Grocery Store, Intersection of County Route 27 & County Route 29, Spring Gardenfederal building survey, 4 photographs
Population over time
2 figuresSpring 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 238 | |
| 2020 | 216 | -22 (-9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 17 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1900 USGS Anniston quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
- 1953 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Piedmont quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1975 USGS Piedmont quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Anniston quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 2001 USGS Piedmont quadrangle1:24000
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.
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
232 since 1992Regional 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/incendiarism | 129 |
| Debris and open burning | 53 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 32 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | 7.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 8 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | National Forests in Alabama | ZONE ABC #2 |
| 7 September 2008 | Arson/incendiarism | 36 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | OFF HWY 278, AL |
| 6 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20190905-13 |
| 5 September 1997 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 September 1995 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 26 September 1996 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 87 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dupont | Aluminum, Water, Free | Past Producer | 1897 | |
| Harbour and Thompson Prospects | Nickel, Cobalt, Manganese | Occurrence | ||
| Pope-Brittain Deposit | Manganese, Iron, Cobalt | Prospect | Wad | |
| R. Stockdale Property | Cobalt, Iron, Manganese | Past Producer | ||
| Rock Run District | Iron, Manganese, Cobalt | Past Producer | WEATHERING RESIDUAL | |
| Stewart Mine | Clay | Producer | ||
| Stock Property | Manganese, Stone | Prospect | 1949 | |
| Agusta Mine | Manganese, Iron, Cobalt | Past Producer | 1918 | |
| Agusta Mine/Stockdale Mine | Manganese, Iron | Past Producer | Residual | |
| Hughes Deposits | Manganese, Cobalt | Past Producer | Wad |
Storms near this place
8 since 1998Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Spring Garden | $8,000 | no account filed |
| August 2018 | Flood | Spring Garden | - | Several roads flooded across far southern Cherokee County in the Spring Garden Community. |
| June 2016 | Hail | Spring Garden | - | Golf ball sized hail along County Road 10 near the town of Spring Garden. |
| April 2003 | Hail | Spring 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 1999 | Hail | Spring Garden | - | Penny size hail was reported just northwest of Spring Garden. |
| April 1998 | Hail | Spring Garden | - | Dime size hail was reported in Spring Garden in the southern part of the county. |
| April 2013 | Hail | Spring Garden | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Spring Garden | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| McFrey Crossroads | 1.1 miles | 17 | |
| Pleasant Gap | 2.1 miles | 17 | |
| Sanford Springs | 3.3 miles | 18 | |
| Frog Mountain | 3.6 miles | 18 | |
| Mona (historical) | 4.5 miles | 18 | |
| Warner (historical) | 4.8 miles | 17 | |
| Rock Run | 4.9 miles | 18 | |
| Old Coloma | 5.2 miles | 18 |
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 Garden | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1275012 | The 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.







