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Hulaco, Alabama

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Eva census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35087. The Survey maps it on the Hulaco quadrangle.

Hulaco within Morgan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

32 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Hulaco between 1997 and 2019, burning about 186 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 burning18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 2006Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190926-6
25 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2016Debris and open burning1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160924-20
24 September 2010Smoking6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2010Debris and open burning26 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2016Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160923-9

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morgan County

Storms near this place

7 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hulaco in 7 storm reports between 1995 and 2019: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 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 1998HailHulaco$2,000Quarter size hail was reported in the southeast corner of the county.
March 1995Thunderstorm WindHulaco$2,000Morgan County Sheriff's Office reported large trees across Highway 231 near Lacey Springs, halfway up Brindley Mountain, and at Hulaco.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindHulaco$400Trees were knocked down into the road at Hulaco and Apple Grove Roads.
May 2013FloodHulaco-Heavy rainfall produced flooding near Boaz, Alabama, as the streets were closed due to high water at the intersection of Mount Vernon and Willow Streets.
July 2007Thunderstorm WindHulaco-Thunderstorm winds tore a roof off of a convenience store.
April 2006HailHulaco-Half dollar size hail was reported.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindHulaco-Large limbs blown down due to thunderstorm winds.

Every storm recorded in Morgan 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
Winn Crossroads2.0 miles20
Ryan Crossroads2.1 miles20
Center Grove5.4 miles20
Apple Grove6.0 miles20
Peach Grove (historical)6.4 miles20
Center Dale6.6 miles18
Eva8.6 miles17
Florette9.1 miles20

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 120540. 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.