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Cunningham, Alabama

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Coffeeville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36727. It stands on Cunningham Branch. The Survey maps it on the Woods Bluff quadrangle.

Cunningham within Clarke County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

24 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Cunningham between 1999 and 2019, burning about 124 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 5 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 burning10
Arson/incendiarism5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use2

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 2007Natural5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use15 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190917-25
24 August 2000Arson/incendiarism20 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 June 2008Natural7.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionTROTTER ROAD, AL
25 May 2002Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
9 April 2017Debris and open burning15 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20170409-6
6 April 2004Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
26 April 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clarke County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Cunningham: 1 past producer, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fullers Earth, Zeolites, Clay. 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
Cla 3 Clay ProspectClayProspect
Old Fuller Earth MineFullers Earth, ZeolitesPast ProducerHeulandite

Every working recorded in Clarke County

Storms near this place

1 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cunningham in 1 storm report in 2012: 1 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
March 2012HailCunningham-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clarke 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
Smyer2.5 miles12
Woods Bluff2.6 miles12
Rock Springs3.4 miles12
Failetown3.7 miles12
Campbell5.3 miles8
West Bend6.0 miles12
Morvin7.3 miles8
Opine7.5 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156241. 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.