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Little River, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Stockton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36550. It stands on Duff Branch. The Survey maps it on the Chrysler quadrangle. It stands 177 feet above sea level.

Little River within Baldwin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

93 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 93 fires within 5 miles of Little River between 1994 and 2019, burning about 2,161 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 31 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 burning34
Arson/incendiarism31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Recreation and ceremony6
Natural2
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
26 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20150926-004
26 September 1994Recreation and ceremony44 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20140923-001
15 September 1997Smoking24 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20140816-002
20 July 2000Natural150 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 June 1996Debris and open burning15 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 June 1995Debris and open burning18 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Baldwin County

Storms near this place

9 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Little River in 9 storm reports between 1998 and 2007: 7 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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
July 1999Thunderstorm WindLittle River$4,000High winds blew several trees down off of State Highway 59 just south of Little River.
August 1998HailLittle River-Dime size hail was reported near Little River.
April 1998HailLittle River-Quarter size hail was reported near Little River.
April 1998HailLittle River-Quarter size hail was again reported near the community of Little River.
April 1998HailLittle River-Dime size hail was reported near Little River.
October 2007Flash FloodLittle River-no account filed
May 2003HailLittle River-no account filed
May 2003HailLittle River-no account filed
May 2003HailLittle River-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
Georgetown3.1 miles8
Blacksher3.6 miles11
Serange4.6 miles11
Montgomery Hill7.6 miles12
Tensaw8.4 miles12
Redtown9.2 miles11
Lottie10.0 miles11
Latham13.6 miles12

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 Little RiverAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14679274The 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 121857. 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.