Tenile, Florida
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Northwest Escambia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32568. It stands on Bay Branch. The Survey maps it on the Barrineau Park quadrangle.
Then and now
1921 to 1994The same ground, surveyed 73 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1921 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 17 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1921 USGS Muscogee quadrangle1:62500
- 1941 USGS Muscogee quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1943 USGS Muscogee quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Pensacola quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Pensacola quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Pensacola quadrangle1:250000
- 1978 USGS Barrineau Park quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1981 USGS Bay Minette quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1994 USGS Barrineau Park quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
147 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 147 fires within 5 miles of Tenile between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,571 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 21 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 | 40 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 33 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 21 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 19 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 14 |
| Natural | 11 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 September 1995 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 2 September 1994 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 17 September 2000 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 16 September 2003 | Arson/incendiarism | 13 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 15 September 2005 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 4.3 acres | Florida Forest Service | 912 |
| 31 August 1994 | Debris and open burning | 35 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 August 2014 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 16 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | SWR-20140829-001 |
| 10 August 2014 | Natural | 18 acres | Florida Forest Service | DAN HALL ROAD (17) |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Tenile: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boggy Creek Clay Deposit | Clay | Occurrence |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bay Springs | 3.0 miles | 15 | |
| Barrineau Park | 3.0 miles | 17 | |
| McKinnon | 4.0 miles | 15 | |
| Enon | 5.3 miles | 18 | |
| Molino Crossroads | 6.7 miles | 16 | |
| Barth | 7.4 miles | 15 | |
| Pine Barren | 7.6 miles | 15 | |
| Brickton | 7.6 miles | 16 |
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 Q122594639 | 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 295669. 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.








