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Tunnel Springs, Alabama

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Peterman census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36471. The Survey maps it on the Beatrice quadrangle. It stands 325 feet above sea level.

Tunnel Springs within Monroe County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

111 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 111 fires within 5 miles of Tunnel Springs between 1994 and 2020, burning about 648 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 20 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 burning38
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Arson/incendiarism20
Recreation and ceremony13
Equipment and vehicle use9
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Smoking3
Natural1

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 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2005Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 August 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190707-5

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this place

1 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tunnel Springs in 1 storm report in 1996: 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
March 1996HailTunnel Springs-no account filed

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Scotland2.4 miles7
Peterman4.1 miles8
Kalem4.5 miles9
Pine Orchard5.5 miles9
Axle5.8 miles8
Natchez6.0 miles7
River Ridge6.3 miles7
Beatrice6.5 miles9

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 Tunnel SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7853296The 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 153735. 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.