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Blue Springs, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Clio census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36017. It stands on Chaney Branch. The Survey maps it on the Clio quadrangle. 84 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 305 feet above sea level.

Blue Springs within Barbour County

Population over time

2 figures

Blue Springs fell from 96 to 84 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
201096
202084-12 (-12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

42 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Blue Springs between 1994 and 2020, burning about 538 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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 burning19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Equipment and vehicle use6
Arson/incendiarism3
Natural1
Smoking1
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
5 September 2016Equipment and vehicle use20 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160905-2
4 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2004Debris and open burning4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2019Debris and open burning101 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190921-5
20 September 2015Debris and open burning9.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSER-20150920-001
19 September 1997Smokingunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Barbour 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
Tyler Crossroads2.9 miles8
Teals Crossroads3.6 miles8
Tew3.8 miles8
Spio (historical)4.9 miles8
Black Gum Corners (historical)4.9 miles8
Texasville5.6 miles8
Akinsville5.9 miles8
Clio6.3 miles8

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 Blue SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q68271The 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 154990. 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.