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Skinnerton, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Lyeffion census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36401. The Survey maps it on the Skinnerton quadrangle.

Skinnerton within Conecuh County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

52 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Skinnerton between 1994 and 2020, burning about 580 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 8 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 burning16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Arson/incendiarism8
Equipment and vehicle use7
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
30 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190930-3
16 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined40 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use12 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionHWY 47N & 83, AL
30 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined11 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20140830-001
24 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20120824-001
18 August 2002Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 July 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Conecuh County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Skinnerton: 4 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown

Every working recorded in Conecuh 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
Commerce5.2 miles7
Ramah5.5 miles7
Fowler5.8 miles8
Harpers Store6.4 miles7
Mixonville6.6 miles7
Deans6.7 miles7
Green Street7.3 miles7
Fairnelson7.3 miles8

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 SkinnertonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q88922231The 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 126937. 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.