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Delchamps, 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 Jonas. The Survey maps it on the Coden quadrangle.

Delchamps within Mobile County

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

327 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 327 fires within 5 miles of Delchamps between 1994 and 2020, burning about 14,701 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 184 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/incendiarism184
Missing data/not specified/undetermined69
Debris and open burning58
Equipment and vehicle use10
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
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
9 September 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 2005Arson/incendiarism30 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined500 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190907-4
7 September 2015Natural1,594 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20150907-003
7 September 1995Debris and open burning15 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2004Arson/incendiarism45 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2010Arson/incendiarism75 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2006Arson/incendiarism14 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mobile 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 Delchamps: 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 Mobile County

Storms near this place

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Delchamps in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2024: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
March 2011Thunderstorm WindDelchamps$5,000Winds estimated at 60 mph downed trees and power lines at Highway 188 and Dauphin Island Parkway.
January 2024Tornado (EF0)Delchamps-A brief, weak EF0 tornado occurred in the Bayou La Batre area north of Old Rock Road. The tornado path was visible via high resolution satellite imagery with a few tree uproots and other minor vegetation damage.

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
Kirewakra2.7 miles24
Alabama Port3.2 miles24
Faustinas3.2 miles25
Heron Bay3.3 miles24
Mon Louis3.6 miles25
Nelson3.7 miles24
Fowl River4.4 miles24
Smithport4.4 miles25

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 117214. 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.