Palmetto Beach, Alabama

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Foley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36542. The Survey maps it on the Pine Beach quadrangle.

Palmetto Beach within Baldwin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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.

1957 USGS Pensacola quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1959 USGS Pensacola quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Pensacola quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Pensacola quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
1980 USGS Pine Beach quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

17 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Palmetto Beach between 1994 and 2018, burning about 1,052 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 1 was 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Natural	5
Debris and open burning	3
Arson/incendiarism	1
Recreation and ceremony	1

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
5 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge	FIREWORKS
19 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	6.1 acres	Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge	STRONG BYU
7 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge	J AND B
27 August 2007	Natural	60 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
27 August 2004	Natural	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
27 August 2004	Natural	5.0 acres	Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge	MOBILE STREET
26 August 2007	Natural	180 acres	Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge	THREE RIVERS
26 July 1994	Natural	22 acres	Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge	ALAFOREST

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Cedar Grove	0.2 miles	9
Gasque	1.1 miles	17
Gulf Highlands	2.4 miles	9
Oyster Bay	5.7 miles	17
Gulf Shores	7.4 miles	8
Bon Secour	7.5 miles	17
Oak	8.6 miles	17
Fort Morgan	9.8 miles	22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 124392. 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.