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Carpenter, Alabama

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Bay Minette census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36507. It stands on Stony Hill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bay Minette South quadrangle.

Carpenter within Baldwin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

325 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 325 fires within 5 miles of Carpenter between 1994 and 2020, burning about 4,387 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 104 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 burning136
Arson/incendiarism104
Missing data/not specified/undetermined42
Recreation and ceremony16
Railroad operations and maintenance15
Equipment and vehicle use5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Other causes1
Natural1
Smoking1

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 1995Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 1995Debris and open burning4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 1995Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20140924-001
21 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190919-4
18 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20150918-001
16 September 1997Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Baldwin 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 Carpenter: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Unnamed QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerQuartz

Every working recorded in Baldwin County

Storms near this place

1 since 2024

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Carpenter in 1 storm report in 2024: 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
May 2024Thunderstorm WindCarpenter-High winds downed trees on AL225.

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
Crossroads1.6 miles13
Hurricane2.2 miles21
D'Olive3.8 miles13
Douglasville4.3 miles13
Whitehouse Forks4.4 miles13
Bay Minette5.2 miles13
Eastwood6.4 miles13
Vangordon6.8 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156152. 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.

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.