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Akinsville, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Clio census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36311. The Survey maps it on the Clio quadrangle.

Akinsville within Barbour County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

71 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Akinsville between 1994 and 2020, burning about 572 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Debris and open burning28
Equipment and vehicle use4
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 2002Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1997Debris and open burning1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2019Debris and open burning20 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190930-27
29 September 2004Debris and open burning4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2015Debris and open burning9.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSER-20150920-001
18 September 1996Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionSER-20150805-002

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Barbour County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Akinsville: 6 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown

Every working recorded in Barbour County

Storms near this place

3 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Akinsville in 3 storm reports between 2009 and 2023: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
March 2009Thunderstorm WindAkinsville$20,000Two empty chicken houses were damaged near the Teals Crossroads community.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindAkinsville$1,000A tree fell across County Road 15 resulting in a vehicle accident.
April 2017HailAkinsville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Barbour 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
Teals Crossroads2.3 miles8
Elamville3.3 miles8
Coal Springs (historical)3.3 miles8
Doster3.4 miles8
Bethel3.8 miles8
Clio5.0 miles8
Blue Springs5.9 miles8
Tyler Crossroads6.5 miles8

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 Q122541742The 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 155981. 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.