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.
Population over time
2 figuresPerdido 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 581 | |
| 2020 | 555 | -26 (-4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 19 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.
- 1921 USGS Bon Secour quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1941 USGS Foley quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1943 USGS Foley quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1944 USGS Miflin quadrangle1:25000
- 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 Orange Beach quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1994 USGS Orange Beach quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
80 since 1994Regional 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/incendiarism | 26 |
| Debris and open burning | 22 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 18 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | SWR-20130907-002 |
| 7 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 18 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 26 August 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 24 August 2011 | Natural | 15 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | FISH TRAP ROAD, AL |
| 14 August 2015 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | INNERARITY POINT (17) |
| 17 June 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | RIVER ROAD (17) |
| 12 June 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Perdido Bay Prospect | Titanium | Occurrence |
Storms near this place
5 since 2000Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2021 | Flash Flood | Perdido Beach | $250,000 | Over 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 2016 | Flood | Perdido Beach | - | County Road 91 at Carrier Drive was closed due to flooding. |
| July 2001 | Waterspout | Perdido Beach | - | A waterspout was observed just offshore of Perdido Beach. The waterspout remained offshore and dissipated over water. |
| June 2000 | Waterspout | Perdido Beach | - | A waterspout was sighted just offshore south of Perdido Pass. The waterspout dissipated over the water. |
| January 2006 | Hail | Perdido Beach | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Josephine | 1.7 miles | 19 | |
| Caswell | 3.7 miles | 19 | |
| Orange Beach | 4.8 miles | 19 | |
| Miflin | 6.0 miles | 19 | |
| Lillian | 6.2 miles | 20 | |
| Swift | 6.9 miles | 17 | |
| Elberta | 7.1 miles | 17 | |
| Romar Beach | 8.3 miles | 19 |
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 Beach | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1274345 | 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 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.









