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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.

Latham within Baldwin County

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

192 since 1994

Regional 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/incendiarism70
Debris and open burning50
Missing data/not specified/undetermined50
Natural10
Recreation and ceremony5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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
9 September 2015Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20150909-001
7 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20150907-001
6 September 2019Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190906-23
4 September 2013Natural20 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20130904-001
21 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20150921-002
25 August 2003Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 August 2007Naturalunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
13 August 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20200813-1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Baldwin County

Storms near this place

4 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2003Thunderstorm WindLatham$5,000no account filed
January 1996Thunderstorm WindLatham$2,000no account filed
April 1998HailLatham-Dime size hail was reported near the Tensaw river just northwest of Latham.
May 2003HailLatham-no account filed

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Vaughn4.1 miles12
Tensaw5.3 miles12
Montgomery Hill6.0 miles12
Stockton6.4 miles13
Rabun7.0 miles11
Blacksher10.1 miles11
Redtown11.3 miles11
Lottie11.6 miles11

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 LathamAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14679255The 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.