Walley, Alabama

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Fruitdale census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36584. It stands on Boggy Branch. The Survey maps it on the Rounsaville quadrangle.

Walley within Washington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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 Deer Park quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Deer Park quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Hattiesburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Hattiesburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1982 USGS Rounsaville quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Citronelle quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Hattiesburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

78 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 78 fires within 5 miles of Walley between 1992 and 2019, burning about 2,668 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 20 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
Debris and open burning	31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20
Arson/incendiarism	20
Recreation and ceremony	4
Natural	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
17 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190917-14
6 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	50 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	SWR-20150806-002
31 August 2011	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	GRAY ROAD, AL
15 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	LE PRINE ROAD, AL
23 July 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Mississippi Forestry Commission	not named
22 July 2015	Natural	32 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	SWR-20150722-001
10 July 1996	Natural	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 June 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Mississippi Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington 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
Burbank	2.9 miles	14
Epworth	5.3 miles	12
Deer Park	6.1 miles	15
Vinegar Bend	6.9 miles	11
Escatawpa	7.5 miles	12
Four Point	8.7 miles	11
Dwight	9.1 miles	15
Fruitdale	10.9 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 Q122542492

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 157211. 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.