Gateswood, Alabama

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Bay Minette census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36567. The Survey maps it on the Gateswood quadrangle.

Gateswood within Baldwin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

1920 USGS Robertsdale quadrangle1:62500
1941 USGS Robertsdale quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1943 USGS Robertsdale quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1957 USGS Pensacola quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1959 USGS Pensacola quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Pensacola quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Gateswood quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1981 USGS Bay Minette quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1994 USGS Gateswood quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

473 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 473 fires within 5 miles of Gateswood between 1994 and 2020, burning about 12,536 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 280 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	280
Debris and open burning	142
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25
Natural	11
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Recreation and ceremony	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
8 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	PETER MORRIS ROAD, AL
3 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	23 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	SWR-20150903-001
21 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
31 August 2000	Natural	2.2 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
3 August 2010	Natural	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
29 August 2000	Natural	50 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
8 July 2006	Arson/incendiarism	25 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 July 1998	Natural	8.0 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
Styx River Estates	6.8 miles	17
Rosinton	9.3 miles	16
Steelwood	10.8 miles	18
Vangordon	11.2 miles	13
Pine Haven	11.3 miles	18
Stapleton	11.4 miles	18
Holly Hills	11.4 miles	13
Pine Grove	11.5 miles	18

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 Gateswood	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q86753492	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 156398. 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.