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Salco, Alabama

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Mobile census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36505. The Survey maps it on the Creola quadrangle.

Salco within Mobile County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

187 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 187 fires within 5 miles of Salco between 1994 and 2020, burning about 4,869 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 90 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/incendiarism90
Debris and open burning55
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Natural7
Equipment and vehicle use4
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
7 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20140907-001
27 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2010Equipment and vehicle use10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1999Arson/incendiarism10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2015Arson/incendiarism20 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20150902-002
2 September 2015Arson/incendiarism30 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20150902-003
2 September 2000Natural4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 1999Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mobile 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 Salco: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, 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
Axis Clay QuarryClayProducer
Axis MineSand and Gravel, Construction, ClayProducerClay, Quartz

Every working recorded in Mobile County

Storms near this place

1 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Salco in 1 storm report in 2023: 1 tornado. 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 2023Tornado (EF1)Salco-An unusual anticyclonic tornado began just west of the Middle River associated with the anticyclonic bookend vortex of a powerful Mesoscale Convective System moving across the area. The tornado likely began just west of the Mobile River based on a radar debris signature and continued to the southwest of Stockton near the Tensaw River. After completion of the storm survey, it was determined the tornado continued as an EF1 cutting across the Tensaw river where a narrow path of trees snapped exists. The tornado turned to the east moving across Live Oak Road snapping and uprooting multiple pines and oaks. Past this, a lack of convergent damage suggests the tornado likely lifted somewhere on Live Oak Road prior to reaching State Highway 225. Additional intense straight line wind damage was surveyed near the path associated with the bookends RFD just to the north where straight line wind speed estimates were upwards of 90mph. The tornado track and intensity has been updated on 6/28/2023 to reflect hi-resolution satellite imagery from Digital Globe Worldview. Winds are estimated upwards of 100mph peaking along the Bottle Creek where many trees were uprooted with a few snaps.

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Le Moyne0.7 miles22
Barry Village2.2 miles22
Axis2.6 miles22
Bucks3.1 miles16
Stage Coach Woods4.3 miles16
Hatters4.5 miles22
Chastang4.9 miles16
Turnerville5.1 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 157007. 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.