Kinlock, Alabama

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 2000. It stands in the Mount Hope census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35565. It stands on Whitman Creek. The Survey maps it on the Kinlock Spring quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Kinlock within Lawrence County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 12 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.

1936 USGS Kinlock Spring quadrangle1:24000
1947 USGS Kinlock Spring quadrangle1:24000
1949 USGS Kinlock Spring quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Haleyville quadrangle1:100000
2000 USGS Kinlock Spring quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

60 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Kinlock (historical) between 1993 and 2020, burning about 2,778 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 28 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/incendiarism	28
Debris and open burning	14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Recreation and ceremony	6
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Natural	2
Smoking	1
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
13 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 2016	Debris and open burning	65 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160912-4
27 August 1995	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	National Forests in Alabama	MACEDONIA
17 August 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
27 July 2006	Natural	under an acre	National Forests in Alabama	KINLOCK
17 July 2006	Natural	27 acres	National Forests in Alabama	NIGHT CRAWLER
1 July 2012	Recreation and ceremony	10 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	NOR-20120701-006
14 June 2017	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20170614-1

Every fire recorded in Lawrence 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
Camp Spring (historical)	8.2 miles	18
Hickory Grove	8.8 miles	18
Youngtown	9.5 miles	18
Hepsidam	9.9 miles	17
Mount Hope	10.1 miles	18
Needmore	10.5 miles	18
Landersville	12.2 miles	18
Wren	14.1 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 162973. 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.