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Romar Beach, Alabama

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Foley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36561. The Survey maps it on the Orange Beach quadrangle.

Romar Beach within Baldwin County

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

37 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Romar Beach between 1994 and 2020, burning about 2,837 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 6 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Debris and open burning8
Arson/incendiarism6
Natural5
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Fireworks1

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
30 September 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2014Naturalunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20140903-002
27 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined68 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20120927-002
2 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined80 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20200802-1
4 July 2009Fireworks2.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionCANAL ROAD, AL
4 July 2008Misuse of fire by a minor100 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionGULF PARK
28 July 1998Arson/incendiarism300 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
21 July 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20170721-1

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 Romar Beach: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Bagley PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Baldwin County

Storms near this place

5 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Romar Beach in 5 storm reports between 2016 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 hail. The reports record 2 injuries. 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
April 2023Thunderstorm WindRomar Beach2 hurtStrong winds rolled one camper into another at Gulf State Park Campground.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindRomar Beach-Large tree downed and doing structural damage to Twin Bridge Trail bridge near the Sportsplex in Orange Beach AL.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindRomar Beach-Emergency management reported a couple of overturned RV's in Gulf Shores.
February 2016Flash FloodRomar Beach-Flooding was reported at the Orange Beach Sportsplex off Canal Rd.
April 2021HailRomar 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
Orange Beach3.5 miles19
Gulf Shores4.3 miles8
Caswell4.9 miles19
Oak6.0 miles17
Oyster Bay6.6 miles17
Josephine6.6 miles19
Bon Secour6.8 miles17
Miflin7.6 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.

Wikidata item Q122592242The 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 125919. 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.