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Sulphur Springs, Alabama

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Valley Head-Mentone census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35989. It lies near Dugout Valley. The Survey maps it on the Sulphur Springs quadrangle. It stands 925 feet above sea level.

Sulphur Springs within DeKalb County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

369 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 369 fires within 5 miles of Sulphur Springs between 1992 and 2020, burning about 11,359 acres in total. None started naturally. 173 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
Arson/incendiarism173
Debris and open burning104
Missing data/not specified/undetermined76
Equipment and vehicle use5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Recreation and ceremony3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Other causes1
Smoking1

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 2010Debris and open burning2.5 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-DADE-003
29 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNOR-20150902-002
19 September 2010Arson/incendiarism12 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1993Arson/incendiarism3.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionNOR-20150918-002
16 September 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-DADE-011

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in DeKalb County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 34 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 34 workings within 5 miles of Sulphur Springs: 13 prospects, 11 occurrences, 10 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Sulfur-Pyrite, 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
Halloysite MineClayPast Producer
Unnamed ProspectSulfur-PyriteProspect
Bibble MineIronPast ProducerStrataform, Concordant
Blake's Mine Et Al.IronPast ProducerStrataform, Concordant
J.C.Mcelroy ProspectIronOccurrence
L.O.Clark ProspectIronOccurrence
Ragon Mining Co. Battelle AreaIronPast ProducerHematite
UnnamedIronPast ProducerHematite
Unnamed MineIronPast Producer
Unnamed MineIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in DeKalb 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
Gann Crossroad2.8 miles23
Battelle3.4 miles23
Oak Grove3.8 miles21
Old Blevins Mill4.0 miles21
Cartersville4.4 miles23
Beulah4.6 miles23
Beaty Crossroads4.7 miles21
Kaolin4.8 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.

Wikipedia article on Sulphur SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q21196624The 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 150540. 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.