Awin, Alabama

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Pine Apple census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36768. The Survey maps it on the Pine Apple South quadrangle.

Awin within Wilcox County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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.

1953 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Pine Apple South quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

31 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Awin between 1995 and 2020, burning about 464 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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 burning	14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Arson/incendiarism	6
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Other causes	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
29 September 2006	Arson/incendiarism	18 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2017	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20170919-2
16 September 1999	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
23 August 2000	Debris and open burning	45 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 July 1998	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 May 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20200506-41
25 May 1998	Arson/incendiarism	25 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wilcox 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 Awin: 1 occurrence. 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unnamed Deposit	Iron	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Wilcox 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Pine Apple	3.3 miles	7
Rutthven	4.4 miles	7
Schuster	5.5 miles	7
Allenton Station	7.5 miles	7
McWilliams	7.7 miles	7
Caledonia	8.2 miles	7
Allenton	8.8 miles	7
Oak Hill	9.1 miles	7

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 Q5714492

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 113315. 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.