Hurricane, Alabama

Hurricane is an unincorporated community in Baldwin County, Alabama.[1]

Hurricane
Unincorporated community
Hurricane
Location within the state of Alabama
Coordinates: 30°50′28″N 87°54′07″W
Country United States
State Alabama
CountyBaldwin
Elevation
9 m (30 ft)
Time zoneUTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code(s)251

History

Variant names were "Hurricane Bayou" and "Tensaw Station".[1] A post office called Hurricane Bayou was established in 1877, the name was changed to Hurricane in 1895, and the post office closed in 1962.[2] The community was named for the fact a hurricane had struck the area.[3]

gollark: I've seen two or three but never caught any.
gollark: You mean emptying at 1h drops?
gollark: I get 20ms latency unless there's anything using decent amounts of bandwidth, at which point it goes up to about 2000ms.
gollark: Like in high-frequency trading, where they pay stupid amounts to lay new fibre to shave off a few milliseconds.
gollark: I think for hunting - above a certain amount of bandwidth - latency matters more.

References
  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Hurricane
  2. "Post Offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved 5 January 2017.
  3. Moyer, Armond; Moyer, Winifred (1958). The origins of unusual place-names. Keystone Pub. Associates. p. 65.


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