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Hatters, Alabama

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Mobile census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36525. It stands on Turtle Branch. The Survey maps it on the Creola quadrangle.

Hatters within Mobile County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 22 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

152 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 152 fires within 5 miles of Hatters between 1994 and 2020, burning about 3,866 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 65 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/incendiarism65
Debris and open burning44
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Recreation and ceremony5
Natural4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 1995Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20150906-002
27 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 1997Arson/incendiarism4.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2000Natural4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 1997Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mobile County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Hatters: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, 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
Dirt PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerQuartz
Axis MineSand and Gravel, Construction, ClayProducerClay, Quartz
Unnamed QuarrySand and Gravel, Construction, ClayProducerClay, Quartz

Every working recorded in Mobile County

Storms near this place

2 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hatters in 2 storm reports between 2023 and 2026: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
March 2026Tornado (EF0)Hatters-Available high resolution satellite imagery revealed a brief|EF0 tornado occurred in the Turnerville area, tracking across|Dixie Road and Salco Road. The tornado caused mainly minor tree|damage along its track, reaching a peak width just across Salco|Road around 100 yards wide.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindHatters-High winds downed trees and power lines.

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
Creola1.0 miles22
Pennsylvania2.1 miles30
Axis2.2 miles22
Junior Acres3.0 miles30
Satsuma3.5 miles30
Cox Beach3.6 miles30
Celeste3.9 miles22
Le Moyne4.0 miles22

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 Q122561383The 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 156455. 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.