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Blacksher, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Stockton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36579. The Survey maps it on the Blacksher quadrangle.

Blacksher within Baldwin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

111 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 111 fires within 5 miles of Blacksher between 1994 and 2019, burning about 3,008 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 44 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/incendiarism44
Debris and open burning36
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
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
26 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20150926-004
23 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20140923-001
20 August 2000Natural7.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
9 July 1998Natural1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 July 1996Natural36 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 July 1996Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
14 July 2000Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 June 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined16 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Baldwin County

Storms near this place

1 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Blacksher in 1 storm report in 1997: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
January 1997Thunderstorm WindBlacksher$1,500no account filed

Every storm recorded in Baldwin 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
Little River3.6 miles8
Montgomery Hill4.1 miles12
Tensaw4.9 miles12
Serange5.3 miles11
Georgetown5.9 miles8
Redtown7.5 miles11
Lottie8.3 miles11
Latham10.1 miles12

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 BlacksherAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q86753490The 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 156071. 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.