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Duncanville, Alabama

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Big Sandy-Duncanville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35456. It stands on Tadpole Creek. The Survey maps it on the Duncanville quadrangle. It stands 243 feet above sea level.

Duncanville within Tuscaloosa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

80 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Duncanville between 1994 and 2020, burning about 3,019 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 27 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/incendiarism27
Debris and open burning19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Recreation and ceremony10
Natural6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Smoking1

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 1997Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresNational Forests in AlabamaLITTLE HOPE
15 September 2000Debris and open burning20 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2019Arson/incendiarism413 acresNational Forests in Alabama701
1 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNWR-20140901-002
30 August 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission11221 HWY 82 E-DUNCANVILLE, AL
22 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresNational Forests in AlabamaARTILLERY
2 August 2008Natural86 acresNational Forests in AlabamaDANCING SKY
17 August 2000Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tuscaloosa County

Storms near this place

22 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Duncanville in 22 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 10 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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
April 2003Thunderstorm WindDuncanville$23,000A supercell thunderstorm moved across parts of southern and eastern Tuscaloosa County and produced damage along its path. A few funnel cloud reports were received in the vicinity of Duncanville. Several trees were blown down along a path from west of Duncanville to south of Brookwood. In Cottondale, a few homes received shingle damage from the storm. Penny size hail was reported in the Coaling area.
April 2007Thunderstorm WindDuncanville$10,000One tree fell on a trailer.
May 2001Thunderstorm WindDuncanville$6,000Several trees and power lines were blown down in the city of Duncanville.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindDuncanville$3,000no account filed
May 1998HailDuncanville$2,000Quarter size hail was reported in Duncanville.
April 2005HailDuncanville$1,000Nickel size hail was reported in Duncanville.
December 2004Thunderstorm WindDuncanville$1,000Trees were blown down just north of Duncanville.
April 2005HailDuncanville$1,000no account filed
June 2025Thunderstorm WindDuncanville-Trees were downed in the Duncanville area.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindDuncanville-NWS Birmingham conducted a storm survey in areas such as Coaling, Vance, Woodstock, West Blocton, Green Pond, Helena, Pelham, and Alabaster. This survey was to assess a large area of reported wind damage associated with a severe thunderstorm bowing segment evident on KBMX RADAR. Observed damage along this path mainly consisted of uprooted or snapped trees, and fallen large tree limbs. Fallen timber caused damage to homes, vehicles, and power lines. Widespread power outages occurred as a result.||Wind damage throughout this path was consistent with straight-line winds, or winds that were not tornadic. Gusts of 60-70 mph were evident along a path approximately 10 miles wide and 80 miles long, and some higher intensity timber damage in the Coaling, Vance, West Blocton, Helena, and Alabaster areas suggest wind gusts up to 75 mph. The damage pattern across this path was divergent, and higher intensity damage areas exhibited divergent microburst characteristics. There was no sign of debris lofting on the damage survey, and no signs of rotation or lofted tornado debris after a thorough analysis of KBMX RADAR data.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindDuncanville-Trees fell across S Sandy Rd near Highway 82.
January 2023Tornado (EF2)Duncanville-National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed damage in the far southeast portion of Tuscaloosa County and determined that it was consistent with an EF2 tornado, with maximum winds near 130 mph. This tornado originated in Greene County, crossed through northern Hale County and entered Tuscaloosa County near the intersection of Hale, Bibb, and Tuscaloosa Counties. The tornado path widened to nearly 600 yards once it crossed into Tuscaloosa County and shortly reached its maximum intensity. |The tornado was rated at 130 mph at this point due to a large swath of trees snapped at their bases. The tornado continued northeast crossing Highway 82 near Hagler, causing additional timber damage and some minor structural damage to two homes. The tornado weakened after crossing Highway 82 and into Bibb County.
March 2021Tornado (EF0)Duncanville-This tornado originated in Hale County. The tornado crossed into Tuscaloosa County near the intersection with Bibb County. It dissipated quickly with damage confined to uprooted trees.
March 2020Thunderstorm WindDuncanville-Several trees uprooted in the town of Duncanville.
September 2012Flash FloodDuncanville-South Sandy Road at Highway 85 was closed due to water flowing over the roadway.
February 2007HailDuncanville-Observed at the County Line Grocery Store, near the Tuscaloosa and Bibb County Line.
May 2001HailDuncanville-Dime size hail was observed just north of Duncanville.
May 1998HailDuncanville-Dime size hail was reported in Duncanville by the volunteer fire department.
March 1995HailDuncanville-Dime-size hail was reported near Duncanville on U.S. Highway 82.
February 2007HailDuncanville-no account filed
March 2005HailDuncanville-no account filed
August 2004HailDuncanville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Tuscaloosa 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
Monticello Two4.1 miles20
Raintree Country4.3 miles20
Monticello Estates4.3 miles20
Judson Park4.9 miles19
Sherwood Forest5.2 miles19
Huntland5.4 miles19
Hagler5.7 miles20
Golden Acres5.9 miles19

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 DuncanvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14679077The 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 159538. 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.