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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.

Seaboard within Washington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

232 since 1994

Regional 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/incendiarism79
Debris and open burning73
Missing data/not specified/undetermined45
Recreation and ceremony15
Smoking5
Natural4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Other causes1
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 2006Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2000Arson/incendiarism80 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1995Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 1995Debris and open burning30 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1995Recreation and ceremony8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

2 since 2003

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2022Thunderstorm WindSeaboard-High winds downed large trees on Bethel Church Road.
May 2003HailSeaboard-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Uniform3.1 miles14
Topton3.2 miles14
Tibbie4.2 miles14
Hawthorn5.4 miles14
Reid Settlement7.0 miles15
Sims Chapel7.3 miles15
Rutan8.2 miles14
New Wakefield8.5 miles14

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.