Larkin, Alabama

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Princeton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35745. It lies near Erwin Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Estill Fork quadrangle. It stands 669 feet above sea level.

Larkin within Jackson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 21 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.

1888 USGS Scottsboro quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Scottsboro quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1939 USGS Estill Fork quadrangle1:24000
1948 USGS Estill Fork quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1951 USGS Estill Fork 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
1984 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

16 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Larkin between 1997 and 2015, burning about 401 acres in total. None started naturally. 11 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	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5

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
30 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
14 May 2007	Arson/incendiarism	8.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
9 March 1997	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
9 February 2001	Arson/incendiarism	100 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
25 February 2007	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
24 February 2007	Arson/incendiarism	35 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
12 February 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	NOR-20150212-004
3 December 1999	Arson/incendiarism	90 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson 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
Estillfork	2.4 miles	21
Milan (historical)	2.5 miles	21
Larkins Fork (historical)	2.6 miles	22
Swaim	2.9 miles	22
Beachboro (historical)	3.9 miles	22
Baileytown	4.3 miles	22
Princeton	4.8 miles	22
Greerton (historical)	5.6 miles	21

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 Larkin	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q19986735	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 156582. 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.