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Wilmer, 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. It stands 249 feet above sea level.

Wilmer within Mobile County

On record in Wilmer

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 1 record

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

424 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 424 fires within 5 miles of Wilmer between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,590 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 146 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/incendiarism146
Debris and open burning139
Missing data/not specified/undetermined76
Recreation and ceremony29
Equipment and vehicle use12
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Railroad operations and maintenance8
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

Storms near this place

16 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wilmer in 16 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 9 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
October 2001Thunderstorm WindWilmer$100,000A line of severe thunderstorms moved across the county producing damage at several different locations. Some of the most significant damage occurred in Semmes where trees were blown down and a plant nursery sustained considerable damage. Tree and roof damage also occurred in the Wilmer area. Wind shear detection instruments at the Mobile Regional Airport recorded a wind gust of 68 mph as the squall line moved across the airport.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindWilmer$15,000High winds from a thunderstorm blew trees down around Wilmer and the western part of Mobile county.
October 1997Tornado (F0)Wilmer$15,000The tornado that moved through the Howell community in Mississippi then moved into Mobile county where the storm blew down several trees and damaged some outbuildings before lifting back into the cloud near U S Highway 98 just west of Wilmer. As in George county, the tornado was only on the ground for a short period of time. No injuries were reported in Mobile county.
November 2006Thunderstorm WindWilmer$10,000High winds from a thunderstorm downed trees near Wilmer.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindWilmer$5,000Several trees were blown down along and in the vicinity Moffett Road by severe thunderstorm wind gusts.
January 1999Thunderstorm WindWilmer$5,000High winds damaged a mobile home near Wilmer.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindWilmer$1,000Several trees were blown down on Coleman Dairy road. One of the trees fell across a storage shed and damaged it.
May 2022HailWilmer-Quarter to half dollar size hail was reported on Glenwood Hills Drive in Wilmer.
October 2010HailWilmer-Nickel size hail in Wilmer.
June 2004HailWilmer-Golfball size hail was reported near Wilmer. Hail fell for about five minutes in the area. No damage was reported from the hail.
May 2022HailWilmer-no account filed
April 2017HailWilmer-no account filed
March 2009HailWilmer-no account filed
May 2003HailWilmer-no account filed
May 2001HailWilmer-no account filed
January 1997HailWilmer-no account filed

Every storm 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
Warley0.4 miles19
Moffet2.9 miles19
Fairview3.8 miles19
Millertown5.5 miles19
Churchill Downs5.8 miles19
Lott5.9 miles19
Semmes6.2 miles19
Georgetown6.6 miles20

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.

Wikipedia article on WilmerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q8022689The 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 129064. 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.

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.