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Sulpher Springs, Alabama

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Hayden census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35079. It stands on James Creek. The Survey maps it on the Blount Springs quadrangle.

Sulpher Springs within Blount County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 23 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

95 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 95 fires within 5 miles of Sulpher Springs between 1994 and 2019, burning about 1,604 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 19 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 burning36
Arson/incendiarism19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Recreation and ceremony16
Equipment and vehicle use3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Natural1

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 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1995Equipment and vehicle use35 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2010Arson/incendiarism10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20180922-7
22 September 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160922-12
21 September 2010Arson/incendiarism45 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Blount County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Sulpher Springs: 2 prospects, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Clay. 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
Blo 7 Clay ProspectClayProspect
Shannon MineIronPast Producer
Unnamed ProspectIronProspect

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
Reids2.2 miles23
Danzler2.8 miles23
Smoke Rise2.9 miles23
Blount Springs3.9 miles23
Bent Tree5.7 miles23
Hayden5.9 miles23
Red Hill6.0 miles23
Sloan6.7 miles23

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.

Wikidata item Q122540700The 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 154100. 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.