Joquin, Alabama

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Luverne census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36035. The Survey maps it on the Petrey quadrangle. It stands 479 feet above sea level.

Joquin within Crenshaw 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
1968 USGS Petrey quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

68 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Joquin between 1994 and 2020, burning about 318 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning	29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Arson/incendiarism	9
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Recreation and ceremony	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Natural	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Smoking	1
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
27 September 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 2007	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
8 August 2001	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
26 August 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
22 August 1996	Recreation and ceremony	2.2 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
21 July 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
13 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	SER-20120713-001
1 July 2020	Natural	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20200701-1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crenshaw County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Joquin: 14 unknowns, 7 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown

Every working recorded in Crenshaw 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
Patsburg	3.4 miles	7
Vidette	4.0 miles	8
Live Oak	4.7 miles	7
Petrey	4.9 miles	7
Shirleys Crossroads	4.9 miles	8
Social Town	5.2 miles	8
Vernledge	6.9 miles	7
Luverne	7.2 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 Q31811554

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 121035. 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.