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Santuck, Alabama

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Eclectic census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36092. The Survey maps it on the Dexter quadrangle.

Santuck within Elmore County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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

183 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 183 fires within 5 miles of Santuck between 1994 and 2020, burning about 913 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 26 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 burning74
Arson/incendiarism26
Recreation and ceremony25
Equipment and vehicle use19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Railroad operations and maintenance9
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Natural4
Smoking2
Fireworks1

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 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenance3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Elmore County

Storms near this place

9 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Santuck in 9 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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
June 2009Thunderstorm WindSantuck$20,000Numerous trees were blown down across Elmore County, including the communities of Redland, Santuck, Emerald Mountain, Friendship, Red Hill, and Weldon Road, and the cities of Wetumpka and Tallassee. A tree fell onto a barn in Tallassee.
January 1997Thunderstorm WindSantuck$18,000no account filed
July 2009Thunderstorm WindSantuck$2,000A few trees were blown down at Pierce Chapel Road and AL-9, in the Santuck community.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindSantuck$1,000Several trees were blown down in Santuck.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindSantuck$500Several large limbs were blown down on AL-9, near Santuck.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindSantuck-A storage building was blown apart at a residence along Highway 170. A Mesonet station just to the southwest in Wetumpka gusted to 51 mph just a couple minutes before.
May 2019HailSantuck-Dime to Quarter size hail in the Santuck community.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindSantuck-Several trees uprooted between the cities of Wetumpka and Eclectic.
August 2007HailSantuck-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Elmore 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
Dexter1.1 miles16
Greer3.6 miles16
Central3.8 miles16
Glendale Acres4.8 miles17
Claud4.9 miles17
Cherokee Estates4.9 miles18
Eclectic5.1 miles16
Wallsboro5.3 miles18

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.

Wikidata item Q122562712The 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 155235. 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.