Escatawpa, Alabama

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Fruitdale census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36539. The Survey maps it on the Fruitdale quadrangle. It stands 171 feet above sea level.

Escatawpa within Washington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 12 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.

1953 USGS Hattiesburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Hattiesburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1974 USGS Fruitdale quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Citronelle quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Hattiesburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

69 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 69 fires within 5 miles of Escatawpa between 1995 and 2019, burning about 2,036 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 29 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	29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Debris and open burning	17
Recreation and ceremony	4
Natural	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
8 September 2006	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	60 acres	Mississippi Forestry Commission	not named
31 August 1995	Debris and open burning	30 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
31 August 1995	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
30 August 1995	Debris and open burning	30 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
29 July 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Mississippi Forestry Commission	54
20 July 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 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

6 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Escatawpa in 6 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 2 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 3 deaths and 3 injuries. 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
April 2011	Tornado (EF3)	Escatawpa	3 killed, 3 hurt, $2,000,000	Tornado moved into southwest Washington county from the Leakesville area of Greene County Mississippi. The tornado tracked near County Road 8 where several mobile homes were damaged or destroyed. Three fatalities and three injuries occurred in a destroyed mobile home in Deer Park on Box Road. The tornado lifted just prior to reaching Highway 45. Extensive tree damage nearly 400 yards wide was noted in several areas along the path.
September 2008	Flash Flood	Escatawpa	$4,000	Heavy rains from Gustav brought flooding to generally the southwest part of Washington county. The heavy rains began around mid day and lasted into the evening. Rainfall estimates of 6-8 inches were widespread across the southwest part of the county. Many streets had standing water in them and had to be closed for several hours due to high water.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Escatawpa	-	High winds downed multiple trees in the Epworth area.
January 2019	Flash Flood	Escatawpa	-	Heavy rain caused several streets to become flooding around Millry.
November 1997	Hail	Escatawpa	-	Dime size hail was reported near the community of Escatawpa in the southwest part of Washington county.
December 1996	Hail	Escatawpa	-	no account filed

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
Four Point	1.5 miles	11
Epworth	2.8 miles	12
Vinegar Bend	2.9 miles	11
Fruitdale	3.8 miles	12
Burbank	4.9 miles	14
Deer Park	6.2 miles	15
Walley	7.5 miles	14
Yellow Pine	8.3 miles	12

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Escatawpa	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q19461607	The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 118025. 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.