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Burnsville, Alabama

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Selma census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36703. The Survey maps it on the Burnsville quadrangle.

Burnsville within Dallas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

109 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 109 fires within 5 miles of Burnsville between 1994 and 2020, burning about 908 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 11 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 burning54
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Recreation and ceremony12
Arson/incendiarism11
Equipment and vehicle use6
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
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
3 September 2019Debris and open burning15 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190903-2
29 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1995Debris and open burning6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use17 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2000Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2005Debris and open burning14 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 1995Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 August 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190820-1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dallas County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Burnsville: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Tyler PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerUnconsolidated Sediments

Every working recorded in Dallas County

Storms near this place

5 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Burnsville in 5 storm reports between 2010 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 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
October 2010Thunderstorm WindBurnsville$4,000Trees toppled along River Road and along Lakewood Estate Road in Burnsville.
May 2025HailBurnsville-Social media picture of quarter-size hail in Burnsville.
March 2019Thunderstorm WindBurnsville-Several trees uprooted along County Road 84.
March 2019Thunderstorm WindBurnsville-Several trees uprooted along County Road 264.
March 2011HailBurnsville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dallas 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
Lily Grove (historical)1.7 miles12
Manila2.4 miles12
Brantley4.3 miles12
New Everdale4.5 miles12
Valley Grande5.6 miles17
Valley Creek Junction7.2 miles17
Selmont8.3 miles15
Selma8.3 miles15

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 BurnsvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q96374144The 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 151706. 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.