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Sylvan Springs, Alabama

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Maytown-Sylvan Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35118. It lies near Morris Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Sylvan Springs quadrangle. 1,653 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 663 feet above sea level.

Sylvan Springs within Jefferson County

Population over time

2 figures

Sylvan Springs grew from 1,542 to 1,653 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,542
20201,653+111 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 22 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

212 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 212 fires within 5 miles of Sylvan Springs between 1994 and 2019, burning about 3,343 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 95 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/incendiarism95
Debris and open burning58
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Railroad operations and maintenance14
Recreation and ceremony9
Equipment and vehicle use3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
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
9 September 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160909-14
8 September 2007Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1998Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1997Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1995Debris and open burning23 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2006Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1998Arson/incendiarism40 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2016Arson/incendiarism40 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160929-27

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson 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
Hoagtown0.8 miles22
Maytown1.7 miles28
Booker Heights1.9 miles22
Highland Forest2.1 miles24
Crockard Junction2.1 miles28
Cedarbrook Forest2.7 miles24
Pleasant Grove2.9 miles24
Pleasant Acres3.0 miles24

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 Sylvan SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q67560The 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 127615. 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.