Earlville, Alabama

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Semmes census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36522. It stands on Puppy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Earlville quadrangle.

Earlville within Mobile County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 20 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 Wilmer quadrangle1:62500
1944 USGS Wilmer quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Mobile quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Mobile quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Mobile quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Mobile quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Mobile quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Earlville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1984 USGS Mobile quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1984 USGS Mobile quadrangle1:100000
1994 USGS Mobile quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

150 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 150 fires within 5 miles of Earlville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,449 acres in total. 2 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
Arson/incendiarism	81
Debris and open burning	33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	28
Recreation and ceremony	4
Natural	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2

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
23 September 2006	Arson/incendiarism	50 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 1996	Debris and open burning	12 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1996	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
12 August 1996	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
12 August 1996	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 July 2000	Arson/incendiarism	60 acres	Mississippi Forestry Commission	not named
4 July 2009	Natural	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	HALF MILE OFF MASONFERRY RD DUE SOUTH, AL
4 July 2000	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Mississippi Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Boothetown

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Boothetown	4.2 miles	20
Moffet	8.9 miles	19
Gulfcrest	9.0 miles	21
Georgetown	9.8 miles	20
Russell	10.5 miles	16
Sidney	10.8 miles	16
Warley	10.9 miles	19
Wilmer	11.3 miles	19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 143306. 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.