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.
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
Tanner Farmhouselisted 2008
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 19 printed sheetsMatched 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 Wilmer quadrangle1:62500
- 1944 USGS Wilmer 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 Semmes 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
424 since 1992Regional 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/incendiarism | 146 |
| Debris and open burning | 139 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 76 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 29 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 12 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 11 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 8 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2002 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 2.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 September 2002 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 September 1996 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 September 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Mississippi Forestry Commission | not named |
| 27 September 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | SWR-20120927-001 |
| 27 September 1994 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 26 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 10 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20190926-5 |
| 26 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
16 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilmer | $100,000 | A 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 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilmer | $15,000 | High winds from a thunderstorm blew trees down around Wilmer and the western part of Mobile county. |
| October 1997 | Tornado (F0) | Wilmer | $15,000 | The 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 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilmer | $10,000 | High winds from a thunderstorm downed trees near Wilmer. |
| May 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilmer | $5,000 | Several trees were blown down along and in the vicinity Moffett Road by severe thunderstorm wind gusts. |
| January 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilmer | $5,000 | High winds damaged a mobile home near Wilmer. |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wilmer | $1,000 | Several trees were blown down on Coleman Dairy road. One of the trees fell across a storage shed and damaged it. |
| May 2022 | Hail | Wilmer | - | Quarter to half dollar size hail was reported on Glenwood Hills Drive in Wilmer. |
| October 2010 | Hail | Wilmer | - | Nickel size hail in Wilmer. |
| June 2004 | Hail | Wilmer | - | Golfball size hail was reported near Wilmer. Hail fell for about five minutes in the area. No damage was reported from the hail. |
| May 2022 | Hail | Wilmer | - | no account filed |
| April 2017 | Hail | Wilmer | - | no account filed |
| March 2009 | Hail | Wilmer | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Wilmer | - | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Hail | Wilmer | - | no account filed |
| January 1997 | Hail | Wilmer | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Warley | 0.4 miles | 19 | |
| Moffet | 2.9 miles | 19 | |
| Fairview | 3.8 miles | 19 | |
| Millertown | 5.5 miles | 19 | |
| Churchill Downs | 5.8 miles | 19 | |
| Lott | 5.9 miles | 19 | |
| Semmes | 6.2 miles | 19 | |
| Georgetown | 6.6 miles | 20 |
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 Wilmer | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q8022689 | 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 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.










