Dwight, Alabama

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Fruitdale census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36522. It stands on Dwight Hill. The Survey maps it on the Deer Park quadrangle.

Dwight within Washington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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.

1942 USGS Deer Park quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Deer Park quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Hattiesburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Hattiesburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1982 USGS Deer Park quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Citronelle quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Hattiesburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

155 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 155 fires within 5 miles of Dwight between 1994 and 2020, burning about 3,839 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 72 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/incendiarism	72
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	36
Debris and open burning	32
Recreation and ceremony	7
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Natural	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
5 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190905-3
4 September 2015	Arson/incendiarism	37 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	SWR-20150904-002
22 September 2006	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	30 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 1996	Recreation and ceremony	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	10370 THREATT LANE, AL
8 August 1998	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

1 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dwight in 1 storm report in 2000: 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
March 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Dwight	$5,000	Trees were blown down near Dwight.

Every storm recorded in Washington 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Deer Park	5.5 miles	15
Sims Chapel	7.5 miles	15
Chestang	7.7 miles	15
Burbank	8.3 miles	14
Vinegar Bend	9.0 miles	11
Walley	9.1 miles	14
Fairford	10.4 miles	15
Reid Settlement	10.7 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156289. 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.