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Phillipsville, Alabama

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 2003. It stands in the Bay Minette census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36507. It stands on McCurtin Creek. The Survey maps it on the Dyas quadrangle.

Phillipsville within Baldwin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

112 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 112 fires within 5 miles of Phillipsville between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,769 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 31 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
Debris and open burning41
Arson/incendiarism31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Equipment and vehicle use9
Recreation and ceremony8
Natural4
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2015Natural20 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20150906-001
27 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission23280 OLD WEEKLEY ROAD, AL
27 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission22400 PHILLIPSVILLE RD, AL
22 September 2019Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190922-14
26 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20140826-001
2 August 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
10 August 2006Natural30 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSPENCE CUTOFF FIRE-1409

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Baldwin County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Phillipsville: 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Bal 6 Clay ProspectClayProspect
Pinchona Clay ProspectClayProspect

Every working recorded in Baldwin County

Storms near this place

3 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Phillipsville in 3 storm reports between 2009 and 2017: 3 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 2017Thunderstorm WindPhillipsville$15,000Winds estimated at 70 mph downed multiple trees. Several fences and roofs were also damaged.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindPhillipsville$10,000Winds estimated at 60 mph downed trees on a road near the Dyas Landing and Phillipsville area.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindPhillipsville$10,000Winds estimated at 60 mph downed trees near Phillipsville.

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
Carney4.9 miles16
Dyas5.0 miles16
Pinchona5.1 miles16
Eastwood6.2 miles13
Pine Grove7.1 miles18
Bay Minette7.3 miles13
Perdido7.7 miles11
Douglasville8.2 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 152886. 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.