Paul, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Evergreen census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36421. It stands on Simmons Creek. The Survey maps it on the Loango quadrangle.

Paul within Conecuh 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.

1953 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Loango quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

100 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 100 fires within 5 miles of Paul between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,013 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 24 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	29
Debris and open burning	28
Arson/incendiarism	24
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Natural	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Smoking	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
30 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2006	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1998	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2007	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	CO RD 42, AL
19 August 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Conecuh County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Paul: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unnamed	Iron	Unknown

Every working recorded in Conecuh County

Storms near this place

7 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Paul in 7 storm reports between 1998 and 2026: 3 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2008	Tornado (EF0)	Paul	$25,000	A weak tornado first touched down just west of Paul. The tornado moved northeast and passed just east of Cohassett. The tornado moved across U. S. Highway 84 at the Conecuh and Covington county line. This is a rural area and the only damage the tornado caused was to trees. Some of the trees landed across the rural roads and had to be moved before anyone could drive on the roads.
March 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Paul	$15,000	Several trees were blown down in the community by straight line winds.
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Paul	$8,000	High winds from a thunderstorm blew down several trees between Paul and Brooklyn.
August 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Paul	$3,000	Several trees were blown down along U. S. Highway 84 north of Paul.
March 1998	Hail	Paul	-	Dime size hail was reported near Paul.
January 2026	Hail	Paul	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Paul	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Conecuh 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
Melrose	2.0 miles	8
Spring Hill	3.8 miles	7
Brooklyn	4.2 miles	7
Mount Union	4.8 miles	7
Georgiaville	5.8 miles	9
Cohassett	5.8 miles	8
Johnsonville	7.0 miles	7
Centerville	9.0 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 155189. 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.