Ellisville, Alabama

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Robertsdale census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36551. It stands on Threemile Creek. The Survey maps it on the Stapleton quadrangle.

Ellisville within Baldwin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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.

1921 USGS Fairhope quadrangle1:62500
1941 USGS Fairhope quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Fairhope quadrangle1:62500
1944 USGS Fairhope quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1944 USGS Stapleton quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
1953 USGS Stapleton quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Pensacola quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1959 USGS Pensacola quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Pensacola quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Bay Minette quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

142 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 142 fires within 5 miles of Ellisville between 1994 and 2018, burning about 1,486 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 22 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 burning	58
Arson/incendiarism	22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18
Recreation and ceremony	13
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Misuse of fire by a minor	9
Natural	5
Smoking	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Other causes	1
Fireworks	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
29 September 2006	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	SWR-20150919-002
19 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 August 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
26 August 1994	Recreation and ceremony	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
24 August 1994	Recreation and ceremony	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Loxley	2.2 miles	18
Yelling Settlement	2.3 miles	18
Belforest	3.6 miles	18
Malbis	3.7 miles	18
Rosinton	5.3 miles	16
Steelwood	6.1 miles	18
Daphne	6.1 miles	21
Silverhill	6.1 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 134557. 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.