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Blakeley, Alabama

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Bay Minette census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36527. It stands on Baptizing Branch. The Survey maps it on the Bridgehead quadrangle. It stands 46 feet above sea level.

Blakeley within Baldwin County

On record in Blakeley

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 24 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

148 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 148 fires within 5 miles of Blakeley between 1994 and 2020, burning about 2,783 acres in total. None started naturally. 41 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 burning70
Arson/incendiarism41
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Recreation and ceremony6
Equipment and vehicle use4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Other causes1

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
30 September 1995Debris and open burning25 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190926-4
2 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20120904-001
23 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20150823-001
8 July 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionHWY 225 & BLAKELEY RD., AL
4 July 1998Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 July 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
12 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined92 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20150712-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Bromley3.0 miles18
Spanish Fort4.7 miles24
Fort McDermott4.9 miles24
Bridgehead5.2 miles24
Park City6.9 miles24
Hurricane6.9 miles21
Stapleton6.9 miles18
Pine Haven7.0 miles18

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 BlakeleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2905865The 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 156073. 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.