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Tuckersburg, Alabama

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36801. The Survey maps it on the Cusseta quadrangle.

Tuckersburg within Chambers County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

55 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Tuckersburg between 1994 and 2019, burning about 489 acres in total. None started naturally. 13 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 burning17
Arson/incendiarism13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Recreation and ceremony5
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1

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 2002Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1995Recreation and ceremony1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160910-24
8 August 2000Debris and open burning4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 August 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionCO.RD 290, AL
12 August 1995Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
11 August 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
11 July 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chambers 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 Tuckersburg: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Feldspar, Mica. 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
T H Clower ProspectFeldspar, MicaUnknown

Every working recorded in Chambers County

Storms near this place

1 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tuckersburg in 1 storm report in 2023: 1 lightning. 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 2023LightningTuckersburg$100,000Lightning caused a house fire on County Road 79. The home was a total loss.

Every storm recorded in Chambers 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
Danway0.5 miles12
Oak Bowery3.7 miles12
Cusseta3.7 miles14
Liberty Crossroads3.8 miles12
Boyds4.4 miles12
Sturkie6.0 miles12
Moorefield6.1 miles12
Nelson7.4 miles15

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 Q122556208The 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 157174. 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.