Gulf Highlands, Alabama

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Foley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36542. It lies near Edith Hammock. The Survey maps it on the Saint Andrews Bay quadrangle.

Gulf Highlands within Baldwin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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.

1957 USGS Pensacola quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1959 USGS Pensacola quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Pensacola quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Pensacola quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
1980 USGS St. Andrews Bay quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

21 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Gulf Highlands between 1994 and 2019, burning about 1,539 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 2 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
Natural	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Debris and open burning	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
5 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge	FIREWORKS
19 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	6.1 acres	Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge	STRONG BYU
27 August 2007	Natural	60 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
27 August 2004	Natural	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
27 August 2004	Natural	5.0 acres	Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge	MOBILE STREET
26 August 2007	Natural	180 acres	Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge	THREE RIVERS
4 July 2002	Natural	10 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
26 July 1994	Natural	22 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
Cedar Grove	2.3 miles	9
Palmetto Beach	2.4 miles	9
Gasque	3.5 miles	17
Fort Morgan	7.6 miles	22
Oyster Bay	8.2 miles	17
Gulf Shores	9.5 miles	8
Bon Secour	9.9 miles	17
Oak	11.0 miles	17

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 Q122596651

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 156439. 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.