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Douglasville, 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. The Survey maps it on the Bay Minette South quadrangle.

Douglasville 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

314 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 314 fires within 5 miles of Douglasville between 1994 and 2020, burning about 3,501 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 81 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 burning125
Arson/incendiarism81
Missing data/not specified/undetermined46
Railroad operations and maintenance17
Recreation and ceremony16
Equipment and vehicle use14
Smoking6
Natural4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Fireworks2
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 1995Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20140924-001
2 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20140902-003
19 September 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionBRADY RD & LL OWENS, AL
18 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20150918-001
16 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Baldwin County

Storms near this place

2 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Douglasville in 2 storm reports between 2019 and 2024: 2 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 2019Thunderstorm WindDouglasville$10,000High winds downed trees in the Pine Grove community.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindDouglasville-no account filed

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
D'Olive0.6 miles13
Bay Minette1.3 miles13
Eastwood2.4 miles13
Pine Grove3.3 miles18
Whitehouse Forks4.3 miles13
Carpenter4.3 miles13
Crossroads4.5 miles13
Pinchona5.1 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 117433. 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.