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Bromley, Alabama

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Daphne census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36507. It stands on Whitehouse Creek. The Survey maps it on the Stapleton quadrangle. It stands 95 feet above sea level.

Bromley within Baldwin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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

250 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 250 fires within 5 miles of Bromley between 1994 and 2020, burning about 3,512 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 72 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 burning115
Arson/incendiarism72
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Recreation and ceremony13
Equipment and vehicle use10
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Fireworks1
Smoking1
Natural1
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
27 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190926-4
26 September 1999Debris and open burning1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20120904-001
19 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190919-4
16 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

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
Blakeley3.0 miles24
Stapleton3.9 miles18
Pine Haven4.0 miles18
Steelwood4.7 miles18
Spanish Fort5.1 miles24
Fort McDermott5.4 miles24
Bridgehead5.4 miles24
Whitehouse Forks5.5 miles13

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 BromleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2926007The 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 156116. 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.