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Talucah, Alabama

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Laceys Spring census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35775. It lies near John Black Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Triana quadrangle.

Talucah within Morgan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 23 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

74 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Talucah between 1994 and 2019, burning about 617 acres in total. None started naturally. 15 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Debris and open burning20
Arson/incendiarism15
Recreation and ceremony7
Equipment and vehicle use6

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
6 September 1999Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1999Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1998Debris and open burning8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2016Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160928-41
28 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresWheeler National Wildlife RefugeFM 98-7
24 September 2016Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160924-9
22 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresWheeler National Wildlife RefugeFM 98-6

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morgan County

Storms near this place

6 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Talucah in 6 storm reports between 2013 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 1 flash flood, 1 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
November 2015Flash FloodTalucah$15,000Between 12 and 24 inches of water rushed into a home on Wanda Drive in the Lacey's Spring area in Madison county, with flash flooding occurring. The home suffered flooding damage.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindTalucah$13,000Several trees were knocked down or uprooted at this location. Aerial damage was evident to some barnlike structures.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindTalucah$5,000Half of a metal roof was blown off of a metal barn structure at this location.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindTalucah$2,000A tree was downed onto a power line by strong thunderstorm winds.
April 2019HailTalucah-Golf ball sized hail was reported in Talucha.
July 2013FloodTalucah-Areal flooding persisted on fields and some roadways through the 6th.

Every storm recorded in Morgan 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
Valhermoso Springs3.9 miles23
Winton4.1 miles24
Bluff City4.3 miles24
Echols Crossroads5.1 miles24
Laceys Spring5.3 miles23
Woodland Mills5.7 miles20
Rocky Point5.9 miles24
Union7.1 miles20

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 Q122552087The 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 157142. 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.