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Estothel, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Opp census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36467. It stands on West Fork Shotbag Creek. The Survey maps it on the Kinston quadrangle. It stands 289 feet above sea level.

Estothel within Covington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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

49 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Estothel between 1994 and 2020, burning about 667 acres in total. None started naturally. 18 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/incendiarism18
Debris and open burning12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Recreation and ceremony4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
29 August 2000Debris and open burning3.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
31 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission9485 MCCLOUD RD, AL
20 July 2010Debris and open burning27 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
9 June 2000Arson/incendiarism2.1 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
9 June 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
21 June 2005Misuse of fire by a minor10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 May 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 May 2007Equipment and vehicle use27 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Covington County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Estothel: 13 unknowns, 6 occurrences. 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
Alabama District #3IronOccurrence
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown

Every working recorded in Covington County

Storms near this place

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Estothel in 2 storm reports in 2011: 2 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
April 2011HailEstothel-Nickel size hail reported 4 miles east of Opp by SkyWarn amateur radio operator.
March 2011HailEstothel-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Covington 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
Blairs1.9 miles8
Beulah2.1 miles8
County Line2.7 miles8
Duvall3.2 miles8
Opp4.0 miles8
Onycha5.0 miles7
Horn Hill6.3 miles7
Blue Springs6.6 miles7

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 EstothelAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22058445The 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 154452. 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.