Scoggins Bottoms, Alabama

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Haleyville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35565. It stands on Tanyard Creek. The Survey maps it on the Haleyville East quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Scoggins Bottoms within Winston County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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 Delmar quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Haleyville East quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Haleyville quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

129 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 129 fires within 5 miles of Scoggins Bottoms (historical) between 1993 and 2019, burning about 1,576 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 58 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	58
Debris and open burning	27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Recreation and ceremony	8
Natural	7
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Smoking	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Other causes	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
7 September 1996	Recreation and ceremony	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2000	Natural	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2018	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20180903-4
3 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2006	Natural	under an acre	National Forests in Alabama	MASHER BRANCH 2
23 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	8.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	7.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Winston 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
Pigeon Roost (historical)	1.9 miles	11
Booger Tree (historical)	3.3 miles	13
Tolen Hill (historical)	3.8 miles	11
Bethel (historical)	4.3 miles	13
Batts Nest (historical)	4.9 miles	13
Delmar	5.5 miles	13
Welbornville (historical)	5.6 miles	11
Black Swamp (historical)	5.8 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2680951. 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.