Turnerville, Alabama

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Citronelle census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36521. The Survey maps it on the Chunchula quadrangle.

Turnerville within Mobile County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 21 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.

1941 USGS Creola quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1943 USGS Creola quadrangle1:62500, 2 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
1982 USGS Chunchula quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Mobile quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1984 USGS Mobile quadrangle1:100000
1994 USGS Mobile quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

342 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 342 fires within 5 miles of Turnerville between 1994 and 2020, burning about 7,256 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 195 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	195
Debris and open burning	87
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	46
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Natural	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
30 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 1994	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 1996	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 2000	Natural	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190912-6

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mobile County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Turnerville: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Maples Pits	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Unconsolidated Sediments

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
Stage Coach Woods	3.8 miles	16
Lambert Grove	4.7 miles	16
Lambert	4.8 miles	16
Salco	5.1 miles	22
Chunchula	5.4 miles	21
Scoutshire Woods	5.5 miles	16
Pineola	5.5 miles	16
Le Moyne	5.6 miles	22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 143892. 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.