Smithport, Alabama

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Theodore census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36582. It lies near Goat Island. The Survey maps it on the Bellefontaine quadrangle.

Smithport within Mobile County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 25 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.

1921 USGS Delchamps quadrangle1:62500
1941 USGS Cedar Point quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1943 USGS Cedar Point quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1953 USGS Mobile quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1956 USGS Bellefontaine quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Mobile quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Mobile quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Mobile quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Mobile quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Biloxi quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Mobile quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

119 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 119 fires within 5 miles of Smithport between 1994 and 2020, burning about 6,287 acres in total. None started naturally. 55 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	55
Debris and open burning	41
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Smoking	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
9 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2006	Arson/incendiarism	14 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	15 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 1999	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2003	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Bayleys Corner	0.4 miles	25
Mon Louis	1.4 miles	25
Faustinas	1.8 miles	25
Sunny Cove	1.9 miles	25
South Orchard	1.9 miles	24
Bellefontaine	2.4 miles	25
Fowl River	2.9 miles	24
Kirewakra	3.7 miles	24

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 127044. 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.