Summerville, Alabama

34 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Mobile census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36610. It stands on Shell Bayou. The Survey maps it on the Mobile quadrangle.

Summerville within Mobile County

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 34 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.

1922 USGS Mobile quadrangle1:62500
1940 USGS Mobile quadrangle1:31680, 3 printings
1940 USGS Mobile quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1943 USGS Mobile quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
1944 USGS Mobile quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1953 USGS Mobile quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1953 USGS Mobile quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Mobile quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Mobile quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Mobile quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Mobile quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Mobile quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1984 USGS Mobile quadrangle1:100000
1994 USGS Mobile quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

49 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Summerville between 1994 and 2017, burning about 510 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 16 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	16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Debris and open burning	9
Recreation and ceremony	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Natural	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
3 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	CR 16/CR 64, AL
9 June 2000	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
12 June 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	1675 CR 217, AL
8 May 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
2 April 2006	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
19 April 1994	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
14 April 2004	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
12 April 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	SWR-20120412-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mobile County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Summerville: 6 producers, 3 past producers, 2 plants. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Calcium, Perlite, Titanium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Kerr-Mcgee Mobile Facility	Titanium	Plant
Laidlaw No. 1 Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Laidlaw Number 1 Quarry	Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Unconsolidated Sediments
Mobile Aluminum Refining Plant	Aluminum	Plant
Mobile Plant	Perlite	Producer
Mobile Dredge	Calcium	Producer
Oyster Shell Products/Canal Plant	Calcium	Producer
Eight Mine Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Laidlaw Pit No. 3	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Mobile Mine	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working 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
Prichard	0.5 miles	34
Sibert	0.9 miles	34
Plateau	0.9 miles	34
Chickasaw	1.3 miles	30
North Mobile	1.4 miles	30
Magazine	1.5 miles	34
Neely	1.6 miles	34
Whistler	1.6 miles	30

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 127544. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.