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Whitehouse Forks, Alabama

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Bay Minette census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36507. The Survey maps it on the Bay Minette South quadrangle.

Whitehouse Forks within Baldwin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 418 fires within 5 miles of Whitehouse Forks between 1994 and 2020, burning about 5,364 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 130 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 burning167
Arson/incendiarism130
Missing data/not specified/undetermined57
Recreation and ceremony18
Equipment and vehicle use15
Railroad operations and maintenance14
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Natural6
Smoking2
Other causes1
Fireworks1

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
8 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 1995Debris and open burning4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 1995Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20140924-001
21 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190919-4

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Baldwin 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 Whitehouse Forks: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unnamed QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerQuartz

Every working recorded in Baldwin County

Storms near this place

8 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Whitehouse Forks in 8 storm reports between 1998 and 2026: 5 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
January 1998Thunderstorm WindWhitehouse Forks$25,000Two homes were damaged by microburst winds estimated at around 80 mph. One of the homes had major roof damage and the other had minor roof damage. Numerous trees were blown down in the area. Some outbuildings were also damaged. The damage occurred near the community of Whitehouse Forks which is southwest of Bay Minette.
April 2005HailWhitehouse Forks$4,000Golfball size hail fell from a thunderstorm near Whitehouse Forks. The large hail damaged a few vehicles.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindWhitehouse Forks$2,000Winds estimated at 60 mph downed trees.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindWhitehouse Forks-High winds downed multiple trees and power lines in the vicinity of the Crossroads and Whitehouse Fork roads.
January 2026HailWhitehouse Forks-no account filed
January 2026HailWhitehouse Forks-no account filed
May 2006HailWhitehouse Forks-no account filed
May 2006HailWhitehouse Forks-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Baldwin 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
Holly Hills2.5 miles13
Vangordon2.6 miles13
Crossroads3.1 miles13
Pine Grove4.3 miles18
Douglasville4.3 miles13
Carpenter4.4 miles13
D'Olive4.4 miles13
Stapleton4.6 miles18

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 Q122552513The 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 157252. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.