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Suggsville, Alabama

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Grove Hill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36482. The Survey maps it on the Suggsville quadrangle. It stands 381 feet above sea level.

Suggsville within Clarke County

On record in Suggsville

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

On the National Register 1 record

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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.

Albert Wilson House, County Road 35, Suggsville, Clarke County, AL
Albert Wilson House, County Road 35, Suggsville, Clarke County, AL
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

46 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Suggsville between 1994 and 2016, burning about 283 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 burning15
Equipment and vehicle use12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Recreation and ceremony3
Arson/incendiarism3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
1 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
1 July 2009Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
1 July 2009Equipment and vehicle use16 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionUS HWY 84, AL
1 July 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
1 July 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 June 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionHWY 84, AL
3 June 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clarke County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Suggsville: 1 occurrence, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Unnamed QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceQuartz
Whatley PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Clarke County

Storms near this place

3 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Suggsville in 3 storm reports between 1996 and 2001: 2 thunderstorm wind, 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
March 1996Tornado (F1)Suggsville$25,000no account filed
November 2001Thunderstorm WindSuggsville$10,000High thunderstorm winds blew trees down near the community.
January 1998Thunderstorm WindSuggsville$5,000Trees and power lines were blown down near the community of Suggsville. One of the trees fell on a home and damaged the roof.

Every storm recorded in Clarke 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
Whatley4.3 miles7
Union5.6 miles8
Manila5.8 miles7
Gosport5.8 miles7
Walker Springs6.2 miles8
Asbury7.8 miles7
Vashti8.4 miles7
Alma9.2 miles12

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 SuggsvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7635103The 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 153599. 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.