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Double 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. 1,119 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 823 feet above sea level.

Double Springs within Winston County

On record in Double Springs

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Double Springs grew from 1,083 to 1,119 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
20101,083
20201,119+36 (+3%)

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.

Fires near this place

149 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 149 fires within 5 miles of Double Springs between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,386 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 64 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
Arson/incendiarism64
Debris and open burning41
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Recreation and ceremony5
Natural4
Smoking4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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
7 September 2000Natural1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1996Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreNational Forests in AlabamaPINETUCKEY
5 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1995Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresNational Forests in AlabamaWILBURN FORD #2
4 September 1999Arson/incendiarism3.2 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2000Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2006Naturalunder an acreNational Forests in AlabamaMASHER BRANCH 2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Winston County

Storms near this place

10 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Double Springs in 10 storm reports between 1994 and 1997: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 lightning. 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
May 1994Thunderstorm WindDouble Springs$50,000Winston County Emergency Management reported many trees down, one business damaged, tin roof partially blown off a building, and power lines down in the Arley-Helicon area along County Road 77 in eastern Winston County.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindDouble Springs$50,000High winds with a thunderstorm toppled a house under construction in Double Springs, took the top off a chicken house, and downed a number of trees. Hail the size of quarters was also reported in Double Springs, and hail up to quarter-size covered the road on U.S. Highway 278 east of Double Springs.
April 1996Thunderstorm WindDouble Springs$45,000no account filed
April 1996LightningDouble Springs$20,000no account filed
January 1997HailDouble Springs$10,000no account filed
July 1995Thunderstorm WindDouble Springs$5,000Three-quarter inch hail was reported at Haleyville. Power lines and several trees were downed in the Double Springs area.
February 1995HailDouble Springs-Dime-size hail was reported on U.S. Highway 278 just west of Double Springs.
June 1994HailDouble Springs-High winds with a thunderstorm toppled a house under construction in Double Springs, took the top off a chicken house, and downed a number of trees. Hail the size of quarters was also reported in Double Springs, and hail up to quarter-size covered the road on U.S. Highway 278 east of Double Springs.
June 1994HailDouble Springs-High winds with a thunderstorm toppled a house under construction in Double Springs, took the top off a chicken house, and downed a number of trees. Hail the size of quarters was also reported in Double Springs, and hail up to quarter-size covered the road on U.S. Highway 278 east of Double Springs.
November 1994Thunderstorm WindDouble Springs-A porch and roof were blown off a trailer between Ashridge and Double Springs. Electric company reported trees down near Arley.

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Fairview2.4 miles11
Welbornville (historical)3.2 miles11
Rock Creek3.4 miles11
Pigeon Roost (historical)3.9 miles11
Robinson Bottoms (historical)4.4 miles11
Lakeshore4.7 miles11
Blue Springs4.8 miles11
Haricon (historical)4.9 miles11

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 Double SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q68173The 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 159511. 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.