Latham, Alabama
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Stockton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36579. The Survey maps it on the Vaughn quadrangle. It stands 121 feet above sea level.
On record in Latham
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 2 records
Latham United Methodist Churchlisted 1988
Nelson Houselisted 1988
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1943 USGS Tensaw quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1944 USGS Tensaw quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Vaughn quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Atmore quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
192 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 192 fires within 5 miles of Latham between 1994 and 2020, burning about 3,065 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 70 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 | 70 |
| Debris and open burning | 50 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 50 |
| Natural | 10 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2015 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | SWR-20150909-001 |
| 7 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | SWR-20150907-001 |
| 6 September 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | 8.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20190906-23 |
| 4 September 2013 | Natural | 20 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | SWR-20130904-001 |
| 21 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | SWR-20150921-002 |
| 25 August 2003 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 August 2007 | Natural | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 13 August 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20200813-1 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Latham in 4 storm reports between 1996 and 2003: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Latham | $5,000 | no account filed |
| January 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Latham | $2,000 | no account filed |
| April 1998 | Hail | Latham | - | Dime size hail was reported near the Tensaw river just northwest of Latham. |
| May 2003 | Hail | Latham | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Latham | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q14679255 | 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 156583. 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.
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.





