Perdido, Alabama
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Bay Minette census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36562. The Survey maps it on the Perdido quadrangle. 730 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 220 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1942 USGS Perdido quadrangle1:62500
- 1944 USGS Perdido quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000
- 1983 USGS Perdido quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Atmore quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 2002 USGS Perdido quadrangle1:50000
Fires near this place
800 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 800 fires within 5 miles of Perdido between 1994 and 2020, burning about 11,023 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 454 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/incendiarism | 454 |
| Debris and open burning | 196 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 82 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 37 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 8 |
| Smoking | 6 |
| Natural | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 September 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 2007 | Smoking | 22 acres | Florida Forest Service | 17-JAKE'S ROAD FIRE-1553 |
| 30 September 2003 | Arson/incendiarism | 35 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 September 1995 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 September 1995 | Debris and open burning | 125 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 27 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20190927-11 |
| 27 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | 23280 OLD WEEKLEY ROAD, AL |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
11 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Perdido in 11 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 7 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Perdido | $5,000 | no account filed |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Perdido | - | High winds downed trees. |
| December 2009 | Flash Flood | Perdido | - | Heavy rains causes County Road 47 to be closed at Interstate 65 due to high water. |
| November 2006 | Flash Flood | Perdido | - | Slow moving thunderstorms brought heavy rains to the north part of the county. Rainfall totals were around 3-4 inches across the area. Several roads had to be closed due to high water from the heavy rain. |
| March 2000 | Hail | Perdido | - | Nickle size hail was reported in community. |
| March 1999 | Hail | Perdido | - | Quarter size hail was reported near Perdido. |
| March 1998 | Hail | Perdido | - | Dime size hail was reported along I-65 near Perdido. |
| March 2023 | Hail | Perdido | - | no account filed |
| March 2023 | Hail | Perdido | - | no account filed |
| May 2007 | Hail | Perdido | - | no account filed |
| March 2005 | Hail | Perdido | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Perdido | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q734255 | The 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 152869. 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.






