Windham Springs, Alabama

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Windham Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35546. It stands on McDuff Spring Branch. The Survey maps it on the Windham Springs quadrangle. It stands 400 feet above sea level.

Windham Springs within Tuscaloosa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 20 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.

1899 USGS Brookwood quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1929 USGS Searles quadrangle1:48000
1934 USGS Searles quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1953 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Windham Springs quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Tuscaloosa quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

52 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Windham Springs between 1994 and 2019, burning about 820 acres in total. 4 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
Arson/incendiarism	20
Debris and open burning	19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Natural	4
Recreation and ceremony	1
Smoking	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
30 September 2010	Debris and open burning	59 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2016	Natural	2.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160925-14
20 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 2010	Debris and open burning	40 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2007	Arson/incendiarism	35 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
20 August 2019	Natural	25 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190820-2
14 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tuscaloosa 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
Wiley	3.4 miles	17
Skelton Bend Estates	5.1 miles	18
Gorgas	6.4 miles	12
Sandtown	6.8 miles	17
Whitson	7.2 miles	17
North Riviera	7.3 miles	18
Holiday Shores	7.4 miles	18
Samantha	7.4 miles	18

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 Windham Springs	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q8024201	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 154008. 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.