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Miflin, Alabama

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Elberta census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36530. It stands on Sandy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Orange Beach quadrangle. It stands 36 feet above sea level.

Miflin within Baldwin County

On record in Miflin

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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

105 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 105 fires within 5 miles of Miflin between 1994 and 2020, burning about 3,743 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 34 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/incendiarism34
Debris and open burning29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Recreation and ceremony8
Natural7
Equipment and vehicle use6
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
3 September 2014Naturalunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20140903-002
23 September 2010Debris and open burning6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 August 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20150827-001
24 August 2011Natural15 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionFISH TRAP ROAD, AL
9 July 2014Natural200 acresFlorida Forest ServiceTARKLIN BAYOU
8 July 1995Debris and open burning4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 July 1998Arson/incendiarism300 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 July 2007Arson/incendiarism26 acresAlabama 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 Miflin: 1 past producer, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Aluminum. 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
Baldwin County Gibbsite SandAluminumProspect1958
Blackwell PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Baldwin County

Storms near this place

6 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Miflin in 6 storm reports between 2006 and 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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
November 2006Thunderstorm WindMiflin$10,000High winds from a thunderstorm blew down several trees and power lines near Miflin.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindMiflin-WeatherFlow station (XGLF) south of Foley measured a 59 mph wind gust.
June 2023Heavy RainMiflin-A total of 2.67 inches was recorded over a 6 hour period at Mesonet Station USA10 in Foley, AL.
April 2021Thunderstorm WindMiflin-Recorded by weather flow site XGLF.
May 2021Flash FloodMiflin-Heavy rain caused CR 12 from Highway 59 to James Road to have a significant amount of water covering the road and the road was closed.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindMiflin-Measured by Weatherflow site XGLF.

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
Swift0.9 miles17
Elberta3.1 miles17
Blue Grass Recreational Vehicle Park3.7 miles17
Foley Recreational Vehicle Park3.8 miles17
Foley4.6 miles17
Josephine5.2 miles19
Orange Beach5.6 miles19
Perdido Beach6.0 miles19

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 MiflinAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14679294The 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 122716. 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.