Seaboard, Alabama
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Fruitdale census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36583. It stands on Tiger Branch. The Survey maps it on the Seaboard quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 14 printed sheetsMatched 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 McIntosh quadrangle1:62500
- 1944 USGS McIntosh quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Hattiesburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Hattiesburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS Seaboard quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Citronelle quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Hattiesburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
232 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 232 fires within 5 miles of Seaboard between 1994 and 2020, burning about 7,463 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 79 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 | 79 |
| Debris and open burning | 73 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 45 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 15 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2006 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 September 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 80 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 2010 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 September 1995 | Recreation and ceremony | 3.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 27 September 1995 | Debris and open burning | 30 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 2 September 1995 | Recreation and ceremony | 8.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Seaboard in 2 storm reports between 2003 and 2022: 1 hail, 1 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.
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Uniform | 3.1 miles | 14 | |
| Topton | 3.2 miles | 14 | |
| Tibbie | 4.2 miles | 14 | |
| Hawthorn | 5.4 miles | 14 | |
| Reid Settlement | 7.0 miles | 15 | |
| Sims Chapel | 7.3 miles | 15 | |
| Rutan | 8.2 miles | 14 | |
| New Wakefield | 8.5 miles | 14 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 150016. 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.
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.






