BlockKingville, Alabama
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Millport census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35576. The Survey maps it on the Hightogy quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 13 printed sheetsMatched 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 West Point quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS West Point quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS West Point quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1967 USGS Hightogy quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1982 USGS West Point quadrangle1:100000
- 1984 USGS West Point quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
87 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 87 fires within 5 miles of Kingville between 1994 and 2020, burning about 515 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 26 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 | 27 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 26 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 13 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Natural | 6 |
| Smoking | 6 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1995 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 9 September 1995 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 9 September 1995 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 September 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 September 2006 | Smoking | 26 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 2.4 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 September 1999 | Natural | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 September 2000 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kingville in 4 storm reports between 2009 and 2019: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kingville | $5,000 | Numerous trees were blown down in the southeastern portion of Lamar County, mainly east of AL-17. |
| February 2019 | Tornado (EF1) | Kingville | - | National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed damage in southeast Lamar County and determined that it was consistent with an EF1 tornado, with maximum sustained winds near 105 mph.||The tornado touched down southwest of Crawford Road in the Kingville community and traveled northeast. At the initial point of touchdown, a large area of uprooted and snapped trees were observed along County Road 49. In this area, near the intersection of County Road 20 and County Road 49, a manufactured home was lofted and displaced to the northeast approximately 75 feet. Maximum winds at this location were 105 mph. The tornado continued northeast towards western Fayette County, just south of Highway 18. Along the path, several uprooted trees and many snapped limbs were observed. The damage path become more narrow as the tornado continued northeast and crossed into Fayette County, near Twin Lake Road. |
| March 2010 | Hail | Kingville | - | no account filed |
| May 2009 | Hail | Kingville | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hightogy | 3.4 miles | 13 | |
| Crossville | 5.6 miles | 13 | |
| Kennedy | 6.3 miles | 10 | |
| Star | 7.0 miles | 13 | |
| Vernon | 7.2 miles | 12 | |
| Millport | 7.5 miles | 12 | |
| Fernbank | 8.1 miles | 12 | |
| Blooming Grove | 9.3 miles | 11 |
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 Kingville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q65081089 | 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 156561. 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.