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Caswell, Alabama

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Foley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36561. It lies near Walker Island. The Survey maps it on the Orange Beach quadrangle.

Caswell within Baldwin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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

30 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Caswell between 1994 and 2016, burning about 727 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 4 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 burning8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Recreation and ceremony5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Arson/incendiarism4
Natural3

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
7 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20130907-002
30 September 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
26 August 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 August 2011Natural15 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionFISH TRAP ROAD, AL
24 June 1998Natural12 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 June 2015Natural305 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20150623-003
24 May 1998Arson/incendiarism115 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

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Caswell: 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Titanium. 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
Bagley PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Perdido Bay ProspectTitaniumOccurrence

Every working recorded in Baldwin County

Storms near this place

1 since 2025

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Caswell in 1 storm report in 2025: 1 heavy rain. 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
October 2025Heavy RainCaswell-Daily rainfall amount of 6.17 inches of rain measured at the mesonet station (DW9919 Gulf Shores) on Ono Island, AL.

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
Orange Beach1.8 miles19
Josephine2.3 miles19
Perdido Beach3.7 miles19
Romar Beach4.9 miles19
Miflin6.5 miles19
Swift7.3 miles17
Elberta8.9 miles17
Foley Recreational Vehicle Park8.9 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 115689. 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.