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Suttle, Alabama

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Sprott census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36701. It stands on Holley Creek. The Survey maps it on the Suttle quadrangle. It stands 148 feet above sea level.

Suttle within Perry County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

59 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Suttle between 1994 and 2019, burning about 546 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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 burning26
Equipment and vehicle use10
Recreation and ceremony6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Arson/incendiarism4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
8 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190908-5
6 September 1995Smokingunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190912-13
12 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190912-16
12 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190912-17
31 August 1995Railroad operations and maintenance15 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 August 2001Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
26 August 2000Debris and open burning2.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Perry County

Storms near this place

8 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Suttle in 8 storm reports between 2000 and 2012: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2003HailSuttle$6,000Golf ball size hail was reported near Suttle along SR 14.
December 2000Tornado (F0)Suttle$4,000A weak tornado briefly touched down just north of the city of Suttle. The tornado was briefly on the ground as it crossed SR 14 between Suttle and Radford, in rural southeast Perry County. Several trees were snapped off or blown over along the short path. This tornado occurred at the apex of a bowing line of thunderstorms. Beginning: 32 33.208/87 11.931 Ending: 32 33.452/87 10.977
August 2011Thunderstorm WindSuttle$3,000Several trees were knocked down along County Road 6 and County Road 10 in southwest Perry county.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindSuttle$3,000Several trees were blown down on CR-6 along the Cahaba River.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindSuttle$2,000A spotter observed 75 mph winds on a hand held anemometer. Several trees were also blown down.
January 2000Thunderstorm WindSuttle$2,000A barn sustained minor wind damage. A portion of its roof was peeled back and torn off and one wall was partially damaged.
March 2012Tornado (EF1)Suttle-A tornado touched down in rural southeast Perry County along Oscar Price Road, just northeast of Suttle. Dozens of trees were snapped or uprooted and one hunting camp mobile home was destroyed, as the tornado moved northeastward. The tornado crossed Oakmulgee Creek and moved into Northeast Dallas County, before eventually lifting in Autauga County.
April 2008HailSuttle-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Perry 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
Oak Grove (historical)3.1 miles13
Radford3.8 miles12
Augustin4.3 miles13
Vilula4.9 miles9
Hamburg5.7 miles9
Nave5.8 miles9
Norman6.4 miles9
Perryville6.6 miles13

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 SuttleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q21196626The 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 153614. 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.