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Port Birmingham, Alabama

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Maytown-Sylvan Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35118. It stands on Short Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sylvan Springs quadrangle. It stands 423 feet above sea level.

Port Birmingham within Jefferson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 22 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

228 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 228 fires within 5 miles of Port Birmingham between 1994 and 2018, burning about 4,974 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 100 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/incendiarism100
Debris and open burning76
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Recreation and ceremony8
Equipment and vehicle use7
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Natural2
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
9 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission1686 OLD COOK FORD ROAD, AL
9 September 2002Arson/incendiarism35 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2007Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1995Debris and open burning6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1995Debris and open burning5.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson 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 Port Birmingham: 1 prospect. 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
Jef 2 Clay ProspectClayProspect

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

4 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Port Birmingham in 4 storm reports between 2015 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
June 2025Thunderstorm WindPort Birmingham-Trees and power lines were downed in the Birmingport area.
May 2018HailPort Birmingham-Large hail reported by boaters on the Locust Fork River.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindPort Birmingham-Several trees uprooted and power pole downed causing structural damage to a building.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindPort Birmingham-Several trees uprooted along Alliance Road.

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Black Creek1.0 miles22
Short Creek1.1 miles22
Wilderness Garden1.1 miles21
Alliance1.7 miles21
Powhatan1.7 miles22
Maxine2.4 miles21
Labuco3.1 miles22
Praco3.3 miles22

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.

Wikidata item Q12888008The 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 125175. 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.