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Jumbo, Alabama

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Mineral Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35046. It stands on Blue Gut Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lay Dam quadrangle. It stands 404 feet above sea level.

Jumbo within Chilton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

237 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 237 fires within 5 miles of Jumbo between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,252 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 56 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 burning95
Arson/incendiarism56
Missing data/not specified/undetermined46
Recreation and ceremony22
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Natural5
Smoking4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1995Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2016Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160928-33

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chilton County

Storms near this place

3 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jumbo in 3 storm reports between 2009 and 2020: 1 flash flood, 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
September 2009Flash FloodJumbo$50,000Several county roads around Chilton County became impassable due to flooding. The hardest hit was CR-61, in the Jumbo community, where floodwater and associated debris caused several large sections of the paved road to wash out.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindJumbo-Several trees uprooted along County Road 145.
March 2019Tornado (EF0)Jumbo-National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed damage in Chilton County and determined that it was consistent with an EF0 tornado, with maximum sustained winds near 85 mph.||The tornado touched down just east of Interstate 65 near Alabama Highway 145 and produced minor tree damage and roofing/wall damage to a site-built home. As the tornado tracked eastward, the density of damage increased. Several pine trees were snapped and uprooted, along with sheet metal peeling of manufactured homes and barns/outbuildings near County Road 249. A mixture of tree damage and minor structural damage was observed all the way to Lay Lake. The tornado crossed Lay Lake near County Road 55 and into Coosa County.

Every storm recorded in Chilton 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
Mineral Springs3.1 miles15
Gap of the Mountain4.0 miles15
Union Grove4.9 miles15
Collins Chapel5.1 miles15
Rocky Mount6.9 miles15
Lomax7.1 miles15
Thorsby7.5 miles15
Jemison8.3 miles15

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 JumboAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q18386230The 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 156541. 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.