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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.

Perdido within Baldwin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

800 since 1994

Regional 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/incendiarism454
Debris and open burning196
Missing data/not specified/undetermined82
Equipment and vehicle use37
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Smoking6
Natural6
Recreation and ceremony6
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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
6 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2004Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2007Smoking22 acresFlorida Forest Service17-JAKE'S ROAD FIRE-1553
30 September 2003Arson/incendiarism35 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1995Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 1995Debris and open burning125 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190927-11
27 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission23280 OLD WEEKLEY ROAD, AL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Baldwin County

Storms near this place

11 since 1998

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1998Thunderstorm WindPerdido$5,000no account filed
June 2023Thunderstorm WindPerdido-High winds downed trees.
December 2009Flash FloodPerdido-Heavy rains causes County Road 47 to be closed at Interstate 65 due to high water.
November 2006Flash FloodPerdido-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 2000HailPerdido-Nickle size hail was reported in community.
March 1999HailPerdido-Quarter size hail was reported near Perdido.
March 1998HailPerdido-Dime size hail was reported along I-65 near Perdido.
March 2023HailPerdido-no account filed
March 2023HailPerdido-no account filed
May 2007HailPerdido-no account filed
March 2005HailPerdido-no account filed

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
Dyas4.1 miles16
Rabun5.3 miles11
Carney7.4 miles16
Phillipsville7.7 miles16
Pinchona7.8 miles16
Lottie8.4 miles11
Redtown9.0 miles11
Eastwood10.5 miles13

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 PerdidoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q734255The 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.