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Skaggs Corner, Alabama

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Ider census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35978. It stands on Fuller Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ider quadrangle.

Skaggs Corner within DeKalb County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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

173 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 173 fires within 5 miles of Skaggs Corner between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,552 acres in total. None started naturally. 53 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/undetermined65
Arson/incendiarism53
Debris and open burning50
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
7 September 1997Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2020Debris and open burning4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20200922-3
21 September 2005Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 1998Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2011Debris and open burning65 acresAlabama Forestry Commission785 CR 346, AL
2 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1999Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2010Arson/incendiarism12 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in DeKalb County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Skaggs Corner: 1 past producer, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Clay. 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
Jac 8 Clay ProspectClayProspect
Woodstock Land & Mineral MinesIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in DeKalb County

Storms near this place

7 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Skaggs Corner in 7 storm reports between 2010 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
October 2010Tornado (EF1)Skaggs Corner$100,000An EF-1 tornado with peak winds up to 95 mph continued it's track from Jackson County into DeKalb County paralleling County Road 141, striking two barns, collapsing the roof and walls of one of the barns. Additional trees were snapped or uprooted. The tornado also produced minor roof and structural damage to a trailer and several farm outbuildings along County Road 803.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindSkaggs Corner$10,000A tree and power lines were knocked down onto a mobile home on CR 134.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindSkaggs Corner$1,000A tree was knocked down on Gilbert Road. Time estimated by radar.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindSkaggs Corner$500A tree was knocked down at Cornerstone Drive near CR 732.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindSkaggs Corner$200A tree was knocked down.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindSkaggs Corner-Power lines and trees were knocked down in Ider and Henager. A power outage was reported along CR 140 in Ider.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindSkaggs Corner-Damaging straight-line winds knocked trees down along County Road 769 and County Road 371 near Ider.

Every storm recorded in DeKalb 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
Beaty Crossroads1.1 miles21
Keith1.2 miles21
Ider1.3 miles21
Biddle Crossroads2.6 miles21
Yorks Mill3.5 miles21
Townsend Crossroads3.6 miles21
Pea Ridge Crossroads4.2 miles21
Oak Grove4.2 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.

Wikidata item Q122599068The 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 157069. 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.