Sulligent, Alabama
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Sulligent census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35586. It stands on Pine Springs Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sulligent quadrangle. 1,879 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 325 feet above sea level.
On record in Sulligent
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
James Greer Bankhead Houselisted 1975
Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record
- James Greer Bankhead House, U.S. Route 278, Sulligentfederal building survey, 7 photographs
Population over time
2 figuresSulligent fell from 1,927 to 1,879 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 | 1,927 | |
| 2020 | 1,879 | -48 (-2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 12 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.
- 1953 USGS West Point quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS West Point quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS West Point quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1967 USGS Sulligent quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS West Point quadrangle1:100000
- 1984 USGS West Point quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
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
71 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Sulligent between 1994 and 2020, burning about 378 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 15 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 burning | 22 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 15 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 13 |
| Smoking | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 18 September 1999 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 1.2 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 16 September 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20190916-6 |
| 16 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 18 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 10 September 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | 22 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20160910-4 |
| 1 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | 18 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20160901-3 |
| 8 August 2016 | Natural | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20160808-1 |
| 29 August 2000 | Smoking | 3.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Sulligent: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mixon Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | Unconsolidated Sediments |
Storms near this place
27 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sulligent in 27 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 14 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 2 lightning, 2 flash flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2005 | Lightning | Sulligent | 1 hurt | One man was struck by lightning in his home. The man suffered minor injuries. Numerous additional lightning strikes were reported in northeast Lamar County. |
| August 2002 | Lightning | Sulligent | $90,000 | Lightning was believed to be the cause of a house fire on US 278 just west-southwest of the center of Sulligent. The fire was reported at 6:45 pm CDT and the house was fully engulfed when the Sulligent Volunteer Fire Department arrived. The house was a total loss. |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sulligent | $45,000 | Trees were reported down between Fernbank and Millport in southern Lamar County. Half dollar to golf ball-size hail along with smaller hail was reported at Crossville in eastern Lamar County. Dime-size hail was reported at Vernon. Trees were downed in Sulligent including at least one that fell onto a mobile home. Several trees fell on cars on Mulberry Road south of Sulligent and about three-fourths of the city was without power at one time. |
| June 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sulligent | $22,000 | Several trees and power lines were blown down in and around the city of Sulligent. The most concentrated damage was on the west side of town. Small hail also accompanied the storm. |
| March 2000 | Hail | Sulligent | $10,000 | A severe thunderstorm tracked across northern Lamar County and dropped hail from the size of dimes to the size of golfballs. In many locations, the hail covered the ground. The path at times was 1 to 2 miles wide and 14 miles long. Most of the hail fell in a rural area. |
| April 2005 | Hail | Sulligent | $9,000 | Golf ball size hail was reported in Sulligent. |
| October 1996 | Hail | Sulligent | $7,000 | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Tornado (F0) | Sulligent | $6,000 | An F0 briefly touched down approximately 4 miles east of the Alabama/Mississippi state line. This location was about 1.5 miles south of Sulligent Lake or 4.3 miles southwest of Sulligent. The tornado tracked east-northeast where it partially damaged two barn roofs. This supercell thunderstorm had a funnel cloud or wall cloud associated with it during its entire lifecycle across northern Lamar County. No additional evidence of another tornado touchdown or damage was found or reported. |
| February 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sulligent | $5,000 | Trees were downed in Sulligent. |
| August 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sulligent | $5,000 | Trees and power lines were down in Sulligent. |
| July 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sulligent | $2,000 | Several trees were blown down along Boy Scout Road and Mulberry Road near Sulligent. |
| September 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sulligent | $2,000 | no account filed |
| November 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sulligent | $1,000 | A large tree was blown down, blocking the road just south of Sulligent. |
| April 2005 | Hail | Sulligent | $1,000 | Half dollar size hail was reported in the Crews community. |
| July 2005 | Flash Flood | Sulligent | $1,000 | High Springs Road and Finch Loop were closed due to high water. |
| March 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sulligent | - | Numerous trees uprooted and power lines downed throughout the city of Sulligent. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sulligent | - | Multiple trees uprooted in Sulligent. |
| February 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sulligent | - | Several trees uprooted and power lines downed in the city of Sulligent. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sulligent | - | Several trees uprooted in the town of Sulligent. |
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sulligent | - | Several trees uprooted in the Sulligent area. |
| February 2007 | Flash Flood | Sulligent | - | Highway 17 was temporarily closed due to flash flooding. |
| April 1995 | Hail | Sulligent | - | Quarter-size hail was reported three miles west of Sulligent. |
| April 1995 | Hail | Sulligent | - | Dime- to quarter-size hail was reported by the Lamar County Sheriff's Department in Sulligent and Vernon. A funnel cloud was also reported near Vernon. |
| November 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sulligent | - | The Lamar County Sheriff's office reported trees blown down between Kennedy and Sulligent about 4 miles southeast of Sulligent. |
| November 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sulligent | - | Lamar County Sheriff's office reported trees down near Sulligent. |
| May 2006 | Hail | Sulligent | - | no account filed |
| March 1998 | Hail | Sulligent | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moscow | 2.8 miles | 12 | |
| Crews | 3.0 miles | 12 | |
| Pine Springs | 3.0 miles | 12 | |
| Beaverton | 6.4 miles | 12 | |
| Bedford | 8.3 miles | 12 | |
| Henson Springs | 8.9 miles | 8 | |
| Detroit | 8.9 miles | 10 | |
| Mansfield | 9.1 miles | 11 |
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 Sulligent | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q79664 | 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 153600. 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.





