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Larkinsville, Alabama

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Scottsboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35768. It lies near Pinhook Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Scottsboro quadrangle.

Larkinsville 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.

Fires near this place

25 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Larkinsville between 1996 and 2016, burning about 229 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Arson/incendiarism7
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking1

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
9 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160909-10
6 September 1999Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20160916-2
20 July 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 June 2007Equipment and vehicle use20 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 June 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined35 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNOR-20150615-001
21 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNOR-20140421-003
2 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNOR-20140402-007

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Larkinsville: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Scottsboro Mine QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this place

17 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Larkinsville in 17 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 13 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 1 hail, 1 heavy rain. 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 2023Thunderstorm WindLarkinsville$10,000A few large trees was uprooted and knocked down onto a home at 11584 Alabama Highway 79.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindLarkinsville$4,000Trees down on powerlines blocking the road at Allen Rd and AL Hwy 79.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindLarkinsville$3,000Multiple trees were knocked down or uprooted along Highway 79 in Scottsboro.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindLarkinsville$2,000At least two softwood trees were uprooted on Old Larkinsville Road.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindLarkinsville$1,500A tree and power lines were reported down.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindLarkinsville$1,000A tree was reported down at the intersection of highway 79 and highway 35.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindLarkinsville$1,000A tree was reported down on a home and a car at 236 CR 529 in Scottsboro.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindLarkinsville$1,000A tree was reported down along highway 79 at CR 30 in Scottsboro. Time was estimated from radar.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindLarkinsville$1,000A tree was reported down on CR 17 near Alabama highway 35.
November 2022Thunderstorm WindLarkinsville$1,000Power lines were reported down across the area. Time estimated by radar.
December 2023Thunderstorm WindLarkinsville$500A tree was knocked down at CR 109 and CR 30 in Scottsboro.
April 2018Thunderstorm WindLarkinsville$500One tree was knocked down onto power lines near the intersection of CR 17 and CR 23.
February 2019FloodLarkinsville-A portion of County Road 17 north of Larkinsville sunk about 4 inches and a portion of County Road 189 sunk 6-8 inches.
July 2017Heavy RainLarkinsville-Reported at WWIC-Radio Station in Scottsboro.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindLarkinsville-Straight-line winds from a severe thunderstorm pulled a metal roof off an old house near the intersection of County Road 529 and County Road 30. The roof blew onto a powerline, knocking it down.
June 2011HailLarkinsville-Quarter size hail was reported.
May 2009Funnel CloudLarkinsville-A funnel cloud was reported in the Larkinsville community.

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Lim Rock3.6 miles21
Wininger4.0 miles21
Pierceton (historical)4.6 miles21
Letcher4.7 miles22
Tupelo4.8 miles24
Dry Cove (historical)4.9 miles21
Scottsboro5.0 miles21
Berrys (historical)5.0 miles21

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 LarkinsvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q66977690The 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 121399. 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.