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Coden, Alabama

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Bayou La Batre census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36523. It stands on Bayou Coden. The Survey maps it on the Coden quadrangle. It stands 7 feet above sea level.

Coden within Mobile County

On record in Coden

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

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

308 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 308 fires within 5 miles of Coden between 1994 and 2020, burning about 17,438 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 169 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/incendiarism169
Missing data/not specified/undetermined61
Debris and open burning57
Equipment and vehicle use9
Recreation and ceremony8
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Natural1

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 1995Debris and open burning15 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1997Arson/incendiarism20 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2004Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2005Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2005Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined60 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20120919-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mobile County

Storms near this place

5 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Coden in 5 storm reports between 1999 and 2020: 4 hail, 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 2020Thunderstorm WindCoden-Amateur radio operated reported 60 mph winds in Coden.
August 1999HailCoden-Nickel size hail was reported by the local media.
August 2011HailCoden-no account filed
April 2010HailCoden-no account filed
July 2003HailCoden-no account filed

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
San Souci Beach1.1 miles22
Nelson1.2 miles24
Bayou La Batre1.5 miles24
Dixon Corner4.8 miles24
Kirewakra4.8 miles24
Delchamps4.9 miles24
Heron Bay6.1 miles24
Fowl River6.6 miles24

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 CodenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3250753The 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 116343. 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.