Skelton Bend Estates, Alabama

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1926 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Samantha census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35475. It stands on Whetstone Branch. The Survey maps it on the Lake Tuscaloosa North quadrangle.

Skelton Bend Estates within Tuscaloosa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 18 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.

1926 USGS Samantha quadrangle1:48000
1928 USGS Samantha quadrangle1:62500, 6 printings
1953 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Lake Tuscaloosa North quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1984 USGS Tuscaloosa quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

73 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 73 fires within 5 miles of Skelton Bend Estates between 1994 and 2020, burning about 811 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 19 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	28
Arson/incendiarism	19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Recreation and ceremony	8
Natural	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Smoking	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
8 September 1999	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2000	Natural	20 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2010	Debris and open burning	59 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2016	Natural	2.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160925-14
20 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tuscaloosa 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
Samantha	2.3 miles	18
North Riviera	2.9 miles	18
North River Shores	3.0 miles	18
Holiday Shores	3.3 miles	18
Searcy Farms	3.4 miles	18
Binion Heights	4.1 miles	18
Hagler Mill Estates	4.6 miles	18
Lake Hills North	4.9 miles	18

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 Q122591760

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 148558. 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.