BlockAlabama Port, Alabama
24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Bayou La Batre census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36523. It lies near Mon Louis Island. The Survey maps it on the Little Dauphin Island quadrangle. It stands 7 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 24 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 Delchamps quadrangle1:62500
- 1941 USGS Cedar Point quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1943 USGS Cedar Point quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1953 USGS Mobile quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Mobile quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Little Dauphin Island quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Mobile quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Mobile quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Mobile quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Biloxi quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Mobile quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
184 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 184 fires within 5 miles of Alabama Port between 1994 and 2020, burning about 9,200 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 109 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 | 109 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 42 |
| Debris and open burning | 26 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 30 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 500 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20190907-4 |
| 7 September 2015 | Natural | 1,594 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | SWR-20150907-003 |
| 7 September 1995 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 September 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | 45 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 2010 | Arson/incendiarism | 75 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 14 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 20 September 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
7 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Alabama Port in 7 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2008 | Flash Flood | Alabama Port | $20,000 | Heavy rains on the backside of Fay brought street flooding and forced several roads to be closed near the Bay. Radar estimated that five to eight inches of rain fell across the area. The storms kept moving over the same general area and caused several side streets to flood and become impassable. The hardest hit areas were along the Dog River and along Bayou Sara. Because of above normal tides the heavy rains caused water to rapidly rise and several homes had to be evacuated. The only damage reported was to the lower part of some homes. |
| August 2005 | Tornado (F0) | Alabama Port | $5,000 | A weak tornado developed along the outer bands of hurricane Katrina. The weak tornado moved in from Mobile Bay and quickly dissipated over land. The tornado blew down several trees and power lines near Alabama Port. |
| September 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alabama Port | $5,000 | High winds from a thunderstorm, that moved in from Mobile Bay, blew down several trees and power lines near Alabama Port. |
| September 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alabama Port | $4,000 | High winds from a thunderstorm blew down a few trees just south of Alabama Port near Cedar Point. The wind was estimated at near 60 mph. |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Alabama Port | $3,000 | Several trees were blown down near Alabama Port. |
| January 1998 | Hail | Alabama Port | - | Dime size hail was reported in the extreme southeast part of the county near Alabama Port. |
| March 2025 | Hail | Alabama Port | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Alabama Port | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4705300 | 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 154960. 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.