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Sprott, Alabama

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Sprott census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36756. It stands on Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sprott quadrangle. It stands 177 feet above sea level.

Sprott within Perry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

Photographs

2 photographs, 1935

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.

Crossroads store. Sprott, Alabama
Crossroads store. Sprott, Alabama
Evans, Walker, 1935. Library of Congress
Crossroads store, post office. Sprott, Alabama
Crossroads store, post office. Sprott, Alabama
Evans, Walker, 1935. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

118 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 118 fires within 5 miles of Sprott between 1994 and 2019, burning about 632 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 6 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/undetermined30
Debris and open burning29
Equipment and vehicle use26
Smoking8
Arson/incendiarism6
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Recreation and ceremony4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Natural3
Other causes2
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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
5 September 2006Natural129 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionCO ROAD 90, AL
2 September 2006Debris and open burning4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 2015Debris and open burning4.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNWR-20150914-001
13 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190913-14
12 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190912-18
12 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190912-19
12 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190912-20

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Perry County

Storms near this place

8 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sprott in 8 storm reports between 2000 and 2019: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2011Thunderstorm WindSprott$5,000A few trees were downed in the northern portion of Perry County.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindSprott$4,000Numerous trees were knocked down across Perry county, mainly affecting locations north of Marion, including the community of Sprott.
March 2000HailSprott$2,000One inch diameter size hail fell near Sprott.
October 2001Thunderstorm WindSprott$1,000A few trees were blown down in rural southeast Perry County.
January 2000Thunderstorm WindSprott$1,000Two trees were blown down along SR 183 near Sprott.
April 2019Tornado (EF0)Sprott-National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed damage in Perry County and determined that it was consistent with an EF0 tornado, with maximum sustained winds near 80 mph. The tornado touched down near Iveys Chapel Church Road where a few trees were snapped. The tornado tracked northeast across inaccessible terrain until it crossed Mount Pilgrim Church Road where it uprooted some trees. The tornado continued northeast where it neared County Road 219 and removed a small portion of a farm shed. The tornado continued across agricultural fields then caused timber damage as it neared areas of trees. The tornado caused damage to homes just south of Melton Lane off of Highway 219. The tornado ripped nearly half of the roof off of a home and damaged siding. On the northwest side of the home strong winds pulled out two of the three support columns for the carport and that resulted in the roof partially collapsing. The tornado moved north along Highway 219 where it continued to cause notable timber damage. The tornado then tracked northeast across County Highway 183, where more timber damage occurred. The tornado continued northeast before dissipating near Barnette Road.
July 2000HailSprott-Nickel size hail fell in northeastern Perry County near Oakmulgee.
March 2013HailSprott-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Perry 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
Cleveland Mills2.2 miles12
Theo3.6 miles12
Osborn4.2 miles12
Levert5.8 miles11
Marion6.0 miles11
Radford6.1 miles12
Adler6.6 miles11
Heiberger6.6 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.

Wikipedia article on SprottAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7581351The 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 160662. 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.