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Boykin, Alabama

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Alberta census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36723. The Survey maps it on the Camden North quadrangle. 208 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 128 feet above sea level.

Boykin within Wilcox County

Population over time

2 figures

Boykin fell from 275 to 208 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010275
2020208-67 (-24%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

101 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 101 fires within 5 miles of Boykin between 1995 and 2019, burning about 756 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 9 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/undetermined33
Debris and open burning28
Equipment and vehicle use21
Arson/incendiarism9
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Natural2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
6 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20160906-3
5 September 2002Equipment and vehicle use35 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2002Debris and open burning1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionHWY 41, AL
30 September 2000Debris and open burning6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 1995Debris and open burning20 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wilcox County

Storms near this place

5 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Boykin in 5 storm reports between 1999 and 2020: 5 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
February 2008Thunderstorm WindBoykin$15,000no account filed
January 2002Thunderstorm WindBoykin$10,000High winds from a line of thunderstorms blew down trees and power lines along County Road 29 between Boykin and Rehoboth.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindBoykin$5,000Several trees were blown down by severe thunderstorm wind gusts along Alabama Highway 41 near the Dallas County line.
August 1999Thunderstorm WindBoykin$3,000Several trees were blown down just south of Boykin.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindBoykin-Numerous trees were downed by severe thunderstorm wind gusts in the northern part of Wilcox County.

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Millers Ferry4.8 miles9
Camden6.0 miles8
Midway6.6 miles9
Shawnee7.0 miles7
Rockwest7.2 miles8
Prairie Bluff7.6 miles9
Estelle8.6 miles7
Rehoboth9.7 miles9

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 BoykinAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1261726The 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 154993. 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.