Fort Stoddard, Alabama

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Mount Vernon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36560. It stands on Borrow Creek. The Survey maps it on the Stiggins Lake quadrangle.

Fort Stoddard within Mobile County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1943 USGS Tensaw quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1944 USGS Tensaw quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1953 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Stiggings Lake quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Atmore quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

269 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 269 fires within 5 miles of Fort Stoddard between 1994 and 2020, burning about 5,266 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 126 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	126
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	92
Debris and open burning	35
Recreation and ceremony	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Smoking	2
Natural	2
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
27 September 2004	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	230 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	SWR-20140911-002
1 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	SWR-20140901-002
7 August 2015	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	SWR-20150807-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

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
Mount Vernon	2.1 miles	16
Movico	3.5 miles	16
Calvert	4.1 miles	15
Chastang	4.9 miles	16
Bucks	6.6 miles	16
Barry Village	7.4 miles	22
Pineola	7.6 miles	16
Stage Coach Woods	7.8 miles	16

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.

Wikidata item Q122543966

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 169330. 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.