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Gulfcrest, Alabama

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Citronelle census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36521. It stands on Sand Hill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Chunchula quadrangle. 142 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 148 feet above sea level.

Gulfcrest within Mobile County

Population over time

2 figures

Gulfcrest fell from 161 to 142 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010161
2020142-19 (-12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 21 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

238 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 238 fires within 5 miles of Gulfcrest between 1994 and 2020, burning about 3,813 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 86 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
Debris and open burning104
Arson/incendiarism86
Missing data/not specified/undetermined32
Equipment and vehicle use8
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Other causes1
Natural1

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
8 September 1995Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1995Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1994Debris and open burning15 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190912-6

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 Gulfcrest: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Mob 14 Clay ProspectClayProspect

Every working 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
Lambert3.2 miles16
Russell4.2 miles16
Scoutshire Woods4.6 miles16
Sidney5.0 miles16
Lambert Grove5.4 miles16
Chunchula5.4 miles21
Turnerville5.9 miles21
Boothetown6.2 miles20

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 GulfcrestAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1262230The 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 143406. 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.