Russell, Alabama

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Citronelle census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36522. The Survey maps it on the Citronelle East quadrangle.

Russell within Mobile County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1943 USGS Citronelle quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1946 USGS Citronelle quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Hattiesburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Hattiesburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1982 USGS Citronelle East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Citronelle quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Hattiesburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

184 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 184 fires within 5 miles of Russell between 1994 and 2020, burning about 3,573 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 70 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	70
Debris and open burning	65
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	34
Recreation and ceremony	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Smoking	2
Natural	2
Other causes	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1

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
3 September 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	HWY 45 SOUTH, AL
29 September 1994	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 1996	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190912-6
9 August 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	10370 THREATT LANE, AL
19 August 2000	Arson/incendiarism	11 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
4 July 2009	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mobile 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Sidney	0.8 miles	16
Citronelle	2.4 miles	16
Scoutshire Woods	2.7 miles	16
Lambert	2.8 miles	16
Lambert Grove	4.1 miles	16
Gulfcrest	4.2 miles	21
Pineola	6.4 miles	16
Turnerville	7.6 miles	21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1989118. 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.