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Cold Springs, Alabama

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Bremen census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35033. It stands on Big Branch. The Survey maps it on the Cold Springs quadrangle.

Cold Springs within Cullman County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 20 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

107 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 107 fires within 5 miles of Cold Springs between 1994 and 2020, burning about 2,388 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 29 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 burning46
Arson/incendiarism29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Recreation and ceremony11
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1
Other causes1
Fireworks1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
8 September 2019Arson/incendiarism10 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190908-3
8 September 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160908-6
26 September 2016Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160926-3
23 September 2016Debris and open burning200 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160923-22
20 September 2003Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission169 COUNTY RD 221, AL
20 September 2000Natural5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2000Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20180917-6

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cullman County

Storms near this place

1 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cold Springs in 1 storm report in 1994: 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 1 injury. 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
June 1994Thunderstorm WindCold Springs1 hurt, $50,000Thunderstorm winds downed trees in the Cold Springs area of Cullman County. One person was injured when a tree fell on a truck.

Every storm recorded in Cullman 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
Wilburn2.1 miles20
Bremen3.5 miles23
Brushy Pond3.5 miles12
Ardell3.6 miles20
Sulphur Springs5.7 miles12
Misty Harbor6.3 miles18
Arkadelphia6.5 miles23
Trade6.6 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 116391. 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.

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.