Sylacauga, Alabama

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 7 records

• William Averiett Houselisted 1986
• B.B. Corner Memorial Librarylisted 2005
• Hightower Brothers Livery Stablelisted 1997
• Sylacauga Historic Commercial Districtlisted 2004
• Welch-Averiett Houselisted 1986
• Benjamin H. Averiett Houselisted 1986
• William Watters Houselisted 1987

Surveyed buildings and structures 7 records

• Baldwin Fluker House, Talladega Highway, Sylacaugafederal building survey, 4 photographs
• Bledsoe-Cook House, State Road 21, Sylacaugafederal building survey, 4 photographs
• Gannts' Quarry, Quarry Road, Sylacaugafederal building survey, 9 photographs
• Mount Ida, County Road 11, Sylacaugafederal building survey, 17 photographs
• Mountain Spring, State Road 21, Sylacaugafederal building survey, 7 photographs
• Sellwood, State Route 76, Sylacaugafederal building survey, 9 photographs
• Wewoka, Riser Mill Road, Sylacaugafederal building survey, 14 photographs

Sylacauga fell from 12,749 to 12,578 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

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.

• 1890 USGS Talladega quadrangle1:125000
• 1892 USGS Talladega quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
• 1915 USGS Gantts Quarry quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1915 USGS Gantts Quarry quadrangle1:48000
• 1917 USGS Gantts Quarry quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1953 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1956 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
• 1957 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
• 1980 USGS Sylacauga West quadrangle1:24000
• 1984 USGS Birmingham South quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 233 fires within 5 miles of Sylacauga between 1993 and 2020, burning about 2,695 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 76 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Sunrise
• The Moon
• Five Points
• Gantts Quarry
• Mignon
• Oldfield

Every fire recorded in Talladega County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 30 workings within 5 miles of Sylacauga: 11 past producers, 7 unknowns, 4 producers, 4 prospects. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Marble, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Talladega County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sylacauga in 57 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 34 thunderstorm wind, 18 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado. The reports record 15 injuries. 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.

Every storm recorded in Talladega County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 160702. 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.