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Perdido Beach, 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 Palmetto Creek. The Survey maps it on the Orange Beach quadrangle. 555 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3 feet above sea level.

Perdido Beach within Baldwin County

Population over time

2 figures

Perdido Beach fell from 581 to 555 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010581
2020555-26 (-4%)

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

80 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Perdido Beach between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,164 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 26 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/incendiarism26
Debris and open burning22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Equipment and vehicle use6
Recreation and ceremony6
Natural2

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
7 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20130907-002
7 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
26 August 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 August 2011Natural15 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionFISH TRAP ROAD, AL
14 August 2015Debris and open burning2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceINNERARITY POINT (17)
17 June 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceRIVER ROAD (17)
12 June 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Baldwin 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 Perdido Beach: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Titanium. 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
Perdido Bay ProspectTitaniumOccurrence

Every working recorded in Baldwin County

Storms near this place

5 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Perdido Beach in 5 storm reports between 2000 and 2021: 2 waterspout, 1 hail, 1 flood, 1 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
September 2021Flash FloodPerdido Beach$250,000Over 6 inches of rain is just a couple of hours time resulted in significant flash flooding in parts of the Lillian and Seminole areas. In Lillian, fast moving water over Highway 98 washed cars off the road. A water rescue had to be performed at the Lillian Post Office due to a person being trapped in their vehicle. County Road 99 at Pearson Branch Bridge was closed due to flooding. In Seminole, a portion of Liatrus Lane near Juniper Road caved in with a six to 10 foot sink hole.
February 2016FloodPerdido Beach-County Road 91 at Carrier Drive was closed due to flooding.
July 2001WaterspoutPerdido Beach-A waterspout was observed just offshore of Perdido Beach. The waterspout remained offshore and dissipated over water.
June 2000WaterspoutPerdido Beach-A waterspout was sighted just offshore south of Perdido Pass. The waterspout dissipated over the water.
January 2006HailPerdido Beach-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
Josephine1.7 miles19
Caswell3.7 miles19
Orange Beach4.8 miles19
Miflin6.0 miles19
Lillian6.2 miles20
Swift6.9 miles17
Elberta7.1 miles17
Romar Beach8.3 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 Perdido BeachAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1274345The 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 124604. 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.