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Sterrett, Alabama

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Chelsea census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35147. It lies near Tater Hill. The Survey maps it on the Vincent quadrangle. 706 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 518 feet above sea level.

Sterrett within Shelby County

Population over time

2 figures

Sterrett fell from 712 to 706 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
2010712
2020706-6 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 22 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

197 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 197 fires within 5 miles of Sterrett between 1994 and 2020, burning about 4,411 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 58 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 burning70
Arson/incendiarism58
Missing data/not specified/undetermined42
Recreation and ceremony14
Equipment and vehicle use5
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Natural2
Other causes1
Smoking1
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
9 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1997Arson/incendiarism20 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1995Debris and open burning40 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190905-10
29 September 2016Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160929-30
29 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2005Arson/incendiarism58 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2016Debris and open burning6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160924-19

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shelby County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Sterrett: 2 past producers, 2 prospects, 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Barium-Barite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron. 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
Birmingham QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
No Name GivenIronPast ProducerResidual
R P Tucker ProspectBarium-BariteProspect
T C Elliott ProspectBarium-BariteOccurrence
T S Florey ProspectBarium-BariteProspect
W W Wyatt MineBarium-BaritePast Producer

Every working recorded in Shelby County

Storms near this place

6 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sterrett in 6 storm reports between 2007 and 2022: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash 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
June 2007Thunderstorm WindSterrett$2,000A few trees were blown down near Sterrett along County Road 45.
April 2009Thunderstorm WindSterrett$500Trees were blown down on CR-55, in Sterrett.
June 2022Flash FloodSterrett-Several roads flooded and impassable around the city of Vincent. Several vehicles stalled out with one almost completely submerged.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindSterrett-Several trees uprooted along County Road 55.
May 2009HailSterrett-Hail up to the size of nickels covered the ground, near Sterrett.
April 2009HailSterrett-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Shelby 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
Vandiver2.3 miles21
Calcis3.0 miles22
Lawley4.0 miles21
Dunnavant4.6 miles21
Cloverdale5.0 miles22
Winburn5.4 miles27
Vincent5.7 miles22
Abbot Springs6.1 miles21

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 SterrettAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1273475The 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 127366. 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.