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Warley, Alabama

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Semmes census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36587. The Survey maps it on the Semmes quadrangle.

Warley within Mobile County

On record in Warley

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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

418 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 418 fires within 5 miles of Warley between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,939 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 144 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/incendiarism144
Debris and open burning138
Missing data/not specified/undetermined76
Recreation and ceremony29
Equipment and vehicle use12
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Natural2
Smoking1

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
5 September 2002Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1996Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMississippi Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20120927-001
27 September 1994Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2019Debris and open burning10 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190926-5
26 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Wilmer0.4 miles19
Moffet2.5 miles19
Fairview4.2 miles19
Millertown5.7 miles19
Churchill Downs6.2 miles19
Lott6.2 miles19
Georgetown6.5 miles20
Semmes6.6 miles19

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 Q122570759The 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 157217. 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.