Blue Springs, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 2000. It stands in the Double Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35553. The Survey maps it on the Double Springs quadrangle.

Blue Springs within Winston County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Double Springs quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1980 USGS Haleyville quadrangle1:100000
2000 USGS Double Springs quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

92 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 92 fires within 5 miles of Blue Springs between 1992 and 2020, burning about 517 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 30 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 burning	32
Arson/incendiarism	30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Smoking	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Natural	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
7 September 1996	Recreation and ceremony	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2018	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20180903-4
2 September 1999	Smoking	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
31 August 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
21 August 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20180821-1
20 August 2007	Arson/incendiarism	4.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 August 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.4 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Winston 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
Pleasant Hill	0.7 miles	11
Welbornville (historical)	1.7 miles	11
Gray (historical)	1.9 miles	11
Ashridge	2.4 miles	11
Rock Creek	2.7 miles	11
Haricon (historical)	2.9 miles	11
Booger Tree (historical)	4.7 miles	13
Double Springs	4.8 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2680800. 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.