Sumterville, Alabama

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1929 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Livingston census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35460. The Survey maps it on the Epes West quadrangle.

Sumterville within Sumter County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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.

1929 USGS Epes quadrangle1:48000
1932 USGS Epes quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1953 USGS Meridian quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Meridian quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Meridian quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Epes West quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS De Kalb quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

13 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Sumterville between 1994 and 2019, burning about 73 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Smoking	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
30 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	15 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	NWR-20130916-001
16 August 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	15 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
29 July 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190729-4
22 June 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	20 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
19 May 1994	Smoking	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 April 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	8.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 April 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sumter County

Storms near this place

5 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sumterville in 5 storm reports between 1998 and 2020: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
March 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Sumterville	$5,000	A few trees were blown down.
April 1998	Hail	Sumterville	$4,000	Golf ball size hail was reported in Sumterville.
August 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Sumterville	$2,000	Several trees were blown down on County Road 20, in Sumterville.
January 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Sumterville	-	Several trees uprooted in the town of Sumterville.
May 2020	Hail	Sumterville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sumter 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Bethel (historical)	2.5 miles	8
Hamner	2.7 miles	8
Sledge	3.9 miles	8
Emelle	4.2 miles	8
McCainville	4.3 miles	13
Epes	6.2 miles	13
Parker	6.3 miles	13
Boyd	7.2 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 153610. 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.

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.