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Sunny South, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Pine Hill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36769. It stands on Bear Creek. The Survey maps it on the Thomasville quadrangle. It stands 164 feet above sea level.

Sunny South within Wilcox County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

64 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Sunny South between 1994 and 2020, burning about 389 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 7 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 burning25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Arson/incendiarism7
Recreation and ceremony6
Equipment and vehicle use6
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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
30 September 1994Recreation and ceremony15 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20150915-001
30 August 2011Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionOAK GROVE ST, AL
29 August 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 August 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 August 2007Naturalunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 August 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wilcox County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Sunny South: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Bromine. 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
G.W. Morgan Estate Well Number 1BromineOccurrence1945

Every working recorded in Wilcox County

Storms near this place

2 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sunny South in 2 storm reports between 2001 and 2023: 2 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
June 2001Thunderstorm WindSunny South$5,000Several trees were reported down along State Road 5 after strong thunderstorms moved through the area.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindSunny South-High winds downed trees down on CR1.

Every storm recorded in Wilcox 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
Hestle2.5 miles8
Pine Hill2.9 miles7
Kimbrough6.2 miles9
MacMillan6.3 miles7
Culpeper6.3 miles7
Arlington6.9 miles9
Anne Manie7.1 miles9
Yellow Bluff9.1 miles7

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 Sunny SouthAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7640746The 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 127561. 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.