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Loyola Villa, Alabama

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Fairhope census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36532. It lies near Tatumville Gully. The Survey maps it on the Daphne quadrangle.

Loyola Villa within Baldwin County

On record in Loyola Villa

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 within a mile 3 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

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

27 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Loyola Villa between 1995 and 2016, burning about 185 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 10 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 burning13
Arson/incendiarism10
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
31 July 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20140801-002
10 June 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 May 2000Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 April 2010Natural3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
10 April 1995Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 March 2010Arson/incendiarism30 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 March 2000Debris and open burning20 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 March 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Baldwin County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Loyola Villa: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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
Dand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed QuarryClay, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerClay, Quartz

Every working 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
Battles Wharf0.5 miles18
Magnolia Beach1.1 miles21
Houstonville1.3 miles21
Point Clear1.9 miles18
Fairhope1.9 miles21
Volanta2.6 miles21
Seacliff3.3 miles21
Montrose4.6 miles21

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 Q122559797The 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 156634. 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.