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Hurricane, Alabama

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Bay Minette census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36507. It stands on Hurricane Bayou. The Survey maps it on the Hurricane quadrangle. It stands 36 feet above sea level.

Hurricane within Baldwin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 21 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

250 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 250 fires within 5 miles of Hurricane between 1994 and 2020, burning about 3,860 acres in total. None started naturally. 88 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 burning97
Arson/incendiarism88
Missing data/not specified/undetermined32
Railroad operations and maintenance13
Recreation and ceremony11
Equipment and vehicle use4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Other causes1
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
8 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 1995Debris and open burning4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 1995Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190919-4
18 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20150918-001
10 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20140808-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Baldwin 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 Hurricane: 1 prospect, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Unnamed Clay ProspectClayProspect
Unnamed QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerQuartz

Every working recorded in Baldwin County

Storms near this place

2 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hurricane in 2 storm reports between 1995 and 2010: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 death. 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
August 2010LightningHurricane1 killedA Semmes, Alabama man was killed by a lightning strike as he and his wife were heading in from a day of boating on the Tensaw River just west of Bay Minette, Alabama.
April 1995Thunderstorm WindHurricane$1,000Several trees and power poles were blown down in northwest Baldwin county near Hurricane.

Every storm recorded in Baldwin 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
Carpenter2.2 miles13
Crossroads2.2 miles13
Whitehouse Forks5.2 miles13
D'Olive6.0 miles13
Douglasville6.4 miles13
Blakeley6.9 miles24
Bromley7.3 miles18
Bay Minette7.4 miles13

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 HurricaneAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q28153499The 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 157989. 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.