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Sugar Creek, Alabama

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Blountsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35079. It stands on Shoal Creek. The Survey maps it on the Nectar quadrangle.

Sugar Creek within Blount County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 21 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

107 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 107 fires within 5 miles of Sugar Creek between 1994 and 2020, burning about 946 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 8 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 burning49
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Recreation and ceremony18
Equipment and vehicle use8
Arson/incendiarism8
Natural4
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
7 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use26 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1995Debris and open burning10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2007Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2016Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160928-1
27 September 2016Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160927-15
26 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Blount County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Sugar Creek: 2 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Rocky MountIronUnknown
Village Springs QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
F & W Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Nectar PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Blount 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
High Rock1.5 miles21
Mount Olive2.5 miles21
Nectar2.6 miles21
Harkness Crossroads2.8 miles21
Wallstown3.0 miles21
Little Shenandoah3.8 miles21
Locust Fork4.1 miles21
Adville4.2 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 127501. 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.