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Fowl River, Alabama

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Bayou La Batre census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36582. It stands on Muddy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Coden quadrangle.

Fowl River within Mobile County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 24 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.

Fires near this place

273 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 273 fires within 5 miles of Fowl River between 1994 and 2020, burning about 8,586 acres in total. None started naturally. 137 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/incendiarism137
Debris and open burning69
Missing data/not specified/undetermined46
Equipment and vehicle use8
Recreation and ceremony8
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Smoking1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 2005Arson/incendiarism30 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2006Arson/incendiarism14 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2004Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2001Arson/incendiarism10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2014Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20140924-006
24 September 2014Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20140924-007
20 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mobile County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Fowl River: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unnamed QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerQuartz

Every working recorded in Mobile County

Storms near this place

6 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fowl River in 6 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 4 flash flood, 1 waterspout, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 1996Flash FloodFowl River$300,000no account filed
June 2007Thunderstorm WindFowl River$20,000A severe thunderstorm collapsed near the Fowl River. Several trees were blown down. A couple of boats were blown loose from their tie lines. Eyewitnesses reported a strong wind from the northeast then a few seconds later it switched to the southwest.
April 2025Flash FloodFowl River-Public reports water over roadway on Bellingrath Road at River Plantation Drive.
June 2023Flash FloodFowl River-Portions of Bellingrath Road and Fowl River Road were flooded.
June 2023Flash FloodFowl River-Several portions of Bellingrtah Road was flooded between Half Mile Road and Deakle Road.
May 1999WaterspoutFowl River-A waterspout was reported along the Fowl River. The waterspout only lasted a couple of minutes and dissipated over the river.

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
South Orchard1.0 miles24
Kirewakra2.0 miles24
Laurendine2.5 miles24
Smithport2.9 miles25
Bayleys Corner2.9 miles25
Mon Louis3.7 miles25
Faustinas3.9 miles25
Sunny Cove3.9 miles25

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 118561. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.