Sawokli, Alabama

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Cottonton-Seale census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36871. It stands on Hatchechubbee Creek. The Survey maps it on the Omaha quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Sawokli within Russell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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.

1955 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Omaha quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Tuskegee quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

94 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 94 fires within 5 miles of Sawokli (historical) between 1993 and 2019, burning about 559 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 10 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	43
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	29
Arson/incendiarism	10
Railroad operations and maintenance	5
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Natural	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
5 September 1999	Debris and open burning	7.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	ECR-20130917-001
15 September 1996	Debris and open burning	6.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 2011	Debris and open burning	3.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-STEWART-009
11 September 1995	Debris and open burning	8.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 August 1998	Debris and open burning	2.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 August 2011	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-STEWART-003

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Russell 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
Cottonton	1.1 miles	10
Jernigan	1.4 miles	10
McLendon	2.4 miles	10
Loflin	4.0 miles	10
Hirsch	4.2 miles	10
Holy Trinity	6.2 miles	10
Glennville	6.6 miles	10
Pittsview	6.7 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 158123. 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.