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Calvert, Alabama

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1984. It lies in ZIP code area 36560. The Survey maps it on the Calvert quadrangle. 255 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 46 feet above sea level.

Calvert within Mobile County

Population over time

2 figures

Calvert fell from 277 to 255 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010277
2020255-22 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

527 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 527 fires within 5 miles of Calvert between 1994 and 2020, burning about 13,504 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 277 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/incendiarism277
Debris and open burning118
Missing data/not specified/undetermined104
Recreation and ceremony13
Equipment and vehicle use5
Natural3
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
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
8 September 1997Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1997Arson/incendiarism30 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2004Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2015Arson/incendiarism16 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20150926-001
26 September 2015Arson/incendiarism25 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20150926-002
24 September 1997Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mobile County

Storms near this place

1 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Calvert in 1 storm report in 2023: 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
April 2023Thunderstorm WindCalvert-High winds downed multiple trees around Grand Bay and Irvington.

Every storm 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
Fort Stoddard4.1 miles13
Mount Vernon4.8 miles16
Movico6.3 miles16
Chastang8.1 miles16
Pineola8.6 miles16
Bucks10.0 miles16
Stage Coach Woods10.2 miles16
Barry Village10.8 miles22

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 CalvertAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1275001The 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 115421. 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.