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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 16 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1901 USGS Wetumpka quadrangle1:125000
- 1901 USGS Wetumpka quadrangle1:62500
- 1903 USGS Wetumpka quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Wetumpka quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS Clanton quadrangle1:100000
- 1987 USGS Clanton quadrangle1:100000
- 1987 USGS Dexter quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
183 since 1994Regional 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 burning | 74 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 26 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 25 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 19 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 16 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 9 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 7 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 2003 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 18 September 1995 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 3.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 17 September 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
9 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Santuck | $20,000 | Numerous 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 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Santuck | $18,000 | no account filed |
| July 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Santuck | $2,000 | A few trees were blown down at Pierce Chapel Road and AL-9, in the Santuck community. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Santuck | $1,000 | Several trees were blown down in Santuck. |
| July 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Santuck | $500 | Several large limbs were blown down on AL-9, near Santuck. |
| April 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Santuck | - | 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 2019 | Hail | Santuck | - | Dime to Quarter size hail in the Santuck community. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Santuck | - | Several trees uprooted between the cities of Wetumpka and Eclectic. |
| August 2007 | Hail | Santuck | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dexter | 1.1 miles | 16 | |
| Greer | 3.6 miles | 16 | |
| Central | 3.8 miles | 16 | |
| Glendale Acres | 4.8 miles | 17 | |
| Claud | 4.9 miles | 17 | |
| Cherokee Estates | 4.9 miles | 18 | |
| Eclectic | 5.1 miles | 16 | |
| Wallsboro | 5.3 miles | 18 |
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 Q122562712 | The 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.









