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Sidney, Alabama

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Citronelle census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36522. The Survey maps it on the Citronelle East quadrangle.

Sidney within Mobile County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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 Sidney between 1994 and 2020, burning about 3,018 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 74 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/incendiarism74
Debris and open burning69
Missing data/not specified/undetermined33
Recreation and ceremony4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking1
Other causes1
Natural1
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
3 September 2011Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionHWY 45 SOUTH, AL
29 September 1994Debris and open burning15 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190912-6
9 August 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission10370 THREATT LANE, AL
4 July 2009Arson/incendiarism15 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
1 July 1998Arson/incendiarism60 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mobile County

Storms near this place

1 since 2025

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sidney in 1 storm report in 2025: 1 hail. 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 2025HailSidney-no account filed

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
Russell0.8 miles16
Citronelle1.6 miles16
Scoutshire Woods3.2 miles16
Lambert3.5 miles16
Lambert Grove4.4 miles16
Gulfcrest5.0 miles21
Pineola6.5 miles16
Turnerville8.3 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 143805. 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.