Serange, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 2002. It stands in the Stockton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36502. It stands on Limestone Branch. The Survey maps it on the Blacksher quadrangle.

Serange within Baldwin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

1942 USGS Perdido quadrangle1:62500
1944 USGS Perdido quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000
1983 USGS Blacksher quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Atmore quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
2002 USGS Perdido quadrangle1:50000

Fires near this place

116 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 116 fires within 5 miles of Serange between 1994 and 2019, burning about 2,568 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 37 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	37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	33
Debris and open burning	30
Recreation and ceremony	8
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Natural	3
Smoking	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	SWR-20150907-002
23 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	SWR-20140923-001
12 September 1994	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
7 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	SWR-20150807-002
25 August 2000	Smoking	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
24 August 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	SWR-20140824-001
20 August 2000	Natural	7.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
1 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190801-3

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Baldwin 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
Little River	4.6 miles	8
Blacksher	5.3 miles	11
Redtown	5.5 miles	11
Lottie	6.2 miles	11
Georgetown	7.5 miles	8
Montgomery Hill	8.6 miles	12
Tensaw	9.5 miles	12
Latham	13.8 miles	12

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.

Wikidata item Q122597888

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 157039. 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.