Tinela, Alabama

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Vredenburgh census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36481. It stands on Tallatchee Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hybart quadrangle.

Tinela within Monroe County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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.

1953 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Hybart quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Monroeville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

50 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Tinela between 1995 and 2020, burning about 489 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 burning	14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Arson/incendiarism	7
Natural	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Smoking	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
11 September 1997	Debris and open burning	2.9 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
31 August 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
26 August 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
23 August 2000	Smoking	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
23 August 2000	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
15 August 2007	Natural	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
30 June 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
26 June 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this place

1 since 2025

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tinela in 1 storm report in 2025: 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
March 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Tinela	-	High winds downed trees.

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Hybart	1.5 miles	7
Vredenburgh	4.2 miles	8
Packards Bend	5.4 miles	7
Franklin	6.5 miles	8
River Ridge	7.9 miles	7
Buena Vista	7.9 miles	7
Chestnut	8.7 miles	7
Natchez	9.1 miles	7

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 Q122540197

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 157161. 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.