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Summit, Alabama

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Brooksville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35031. It lies near Tower Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Brooksville quadrangle. It stands 915 feet above sea level.

Summit within Blount County

On record in Summit

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 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

94 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 94 fires within 5 miles of Summit between 1996 and 2020, burning about 789 acres in total. None started naturally. 24 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
Arson/incendiarism24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
9 September 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2005Arson/incendiarism20 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20200905-1
4 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2016Debris and open burning4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160929-8
28 September 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 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

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Summit: 1 past producer, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese. 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
D and R PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Glover Manganese ProspectManganeseProspect1942

Every working recorded in Blount County

Storms near this place

11 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Summit in 11 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 8 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail. 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
July 1995Thunderstorm WindSummit$22,000A mobile home was damaged and a tree was blown onto a house in northern Blount County around Summit. Trees and power lines were down along Highway 132 between Oneonta and Altoona.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindSummit$4,000One tree down across county highway 25 at Hinds Road.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindSummit$4,000Several trees were blown down in the vicinity of Highway 79 and mile marker 53.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindSummit$2,000A tree was blown down across Alabama Highway 67.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindSummit$2,000A few trees and power lines were blown down, near the Summit community.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindSummit$2,000Several trees were blow down in the Rainbow Crossing area, near the intersection of US-231 and US-278.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindSummit$500A tree was blown down on Roswell Creek Road.
June 2023HailSummit-Nickel size hail reported along Highway 231 north of Summit.
March 2018Thunderstorm WindSummit-Several trees uprooted near the town of Summit.
May 2003HailSummit-Quarter size hail was observed in extreme northern Blount County. The hail fell in an area just east of US 231 near the Cullman and Marshall County line. A few trees were also blown down.
February 2011HailSummit-no account filed

Every storm 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
Roswell2.3 miles19
Strawberry3.1 miles23
Brooksville3.1 miles23
Rock Springs3.4 miles19
Fowler (historical)3.6 miles23
Birdie3.6 miles19
Hopewell3.8 miles24
Bright Star4.6 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 SummitAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7637735The 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 127547. 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.