Seale, Alabama
20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Cottonton-Seale census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36875. The Survey maps it on the Seale quadrangle. It stands 341 feet above sea level.
On record in Seale
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 2 records
Bass-Perry Houselisted 1976
Russell County Courthouse at Sealelisted 1974
Surveyed buildings and structures 2 records
- Bass-Perry House, U.S. Highway 431, Sealefederal building survey, 20 photographs
- Dudley's Hotel, Railroad & Main Streets, Sealefederal building survey, 3 photographs
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 20 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.
- 1914 USGS Seale quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
- 1950 USGS Seale quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Seale quadrangle1:62500
- 1955 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Seale quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Seale quadrangle1:62500
- 1957 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Tuskegee quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Photographs
2 photographs,Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
208 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 208 fires within 5 miles of Seale between 1994 and 2020, burning about 2,316 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 21 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 97 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 32 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 21 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 17 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 15 |
| Smoking | 11 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 10 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2002 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20160929-3 |
| 28 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20160928-39 |
| 25 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 21 September 2002 | Arson/incendiarism | 8.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 20 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20190920-4 |
| 15 September 2010 | Smoking | 20 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 13 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
32 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Seale in 32 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 15 hail, 13 thunderstorm wind, 2 funnel cloud, 1 flash flood. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2007 | Hail | Seale | $100,000 | A swath of very large hail, some of it as big as grapefruits, fell across the eastern portion of Russell County, including the cities of Seale, Fort Mitchell, and Holy Trinity. The ground was covered with hail in several locations. At least 4 homes and 15 cars were damaged. |
| July 2008 | Lightning | Seale | $50,000 | A lightning strike caused a house to catch fire. |
| April 1996 | Hail | Seale | $25,000 | no account filed |
| March 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Seale | $25,000 | no account filed |
| March 2005 | Hail | Seale | $22,000 | Large hail was reported in and near the Seale all the way to Phenix City. The hail was nickel to golfball size. |
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Seale | $20,000 | no account filed |
| March 2001 | Flash Flood | Seale | $14,000 | Several roads were flooded in and around Seale. A few of the roads had portions washed away. |
| November 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Seale | $10,000 | Trees were down and blocking the intersection of CR 18 and CR 39, in the eastern part of the county. |
| April 1996 | Hail | Seale | $8,000 | no account filed |
| June 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Seale | $5,000 | Two very large trees were blown down and blocked the road, just south of Seale. |
| May 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Seale | $5,000 | Several trees were blown down from near the Crawford Community to south of Phenix City. |
| March 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Seale | $5,000 | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Hail | Seale | $4,000 | Golf ball size hail was reported just north of Seale. |
| April 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Seale | $4,000 | Trees were down in Seale, in the central part of the county. |
| February 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Seale | $3,000 | Several trees were blown down on US-431, near Seale. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Seale | $2,000 | Trees were blown down in and around Seale. |
| April 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Seale | $2,000 | A few trees were blown down around the city of Seale. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Seale | $500 | A shutter was blown off a house in the Steele community. |
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Seale | - | Trees were downed across various parts of Russell County. |
| May 2025 | Hail | Seale | - | Penny-size hail was reported in the Seale area. |
| May 2024 | Hail | Seale | - | Quarter-size hail was reported along Highway 169 near Seale. |
| March 2023 | Hail | Seale | - | Hail covering the ground in Seale, some as large as quarters. |
| May 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Seale | - | Numerous trees uprooted in the town of Seale and across Russell County. |
| May 2003 | Hail | Seale | - | Penny size hail was reported in central Russell County near Seale. |
| June 2001 | Hail | Seale | - | Nickel size hail was reported in Seale. |
| March 2000 | Hail | Seale | - | Penny size hail fell just north of the city of Seale. |
| April 1998 | Hail | Seale | - | Dime size hail was reported in Cottonton. |
| April 2009 | Hail | Seale | - | no account filed |
| April 2009 | Hail | Seale | - | no account filed |
| March 2008 | Hail | Seale | - | no account filed |
| April 2007 | Funnel Cloud | Seale | - | no account filed |
| March 2006 | Funnel Cloud | Seale | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dudleys | 1.6 miles | 20 | |
| Villula | 2.2 miles | 20 | |
| Colbert | 3.7 miles | 20 | |
| Lato | 4.0 miles | 20 | |
| Sandfort | 4.0 miles | 20 | |
| Hyram | 5.7 miles | 20 | |
| Hatchechubbee | 6.0 miles | 9 | |
| Parkmanville | 6.3 miles | 20 |
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.
| Wikipedia article on Seale | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2891020 | The 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 153358. 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.








