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Barry Village, Alabama

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Mount Vernon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36512. It sits by Thirty One Mile Bluff. The Survey maps it on the Creola quadrangle.

Barry Village within Mobile County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 22 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

233 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 233 fires within 5 miles of Barry Village between 1994 and 2020, burning about 5,484 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 141 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/incendiarism141
Debris and open burning52
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Natural5
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
7 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20140907-001
27 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1999Arson/incendiarism10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 1997Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2015Arson/incendiarism20 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20150902-002
2 September 2015Arson/incendiarism30 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20150902-003
18 September 1999Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 1997Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mobile County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Barry Village: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Axis MineSand and Gravel, Construction, ClayProducerClay, Quartz

Every working recorded in Mobile 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
Bucks0.8 miles16
Salco2.2 miles22
Chastang2.7 miles16
Le Moyne2.8 miles22
Stage Coach Woods3.1 miles16
Movico4.5 miles16
Axis4.8 miles22
Turnerville5.6 miles21

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 Q122565508The 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 143126. 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.