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Skipperville, Alabama

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Ozark census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36374. It stands on Burnt Mill Branch. The Survey maps it on the Skipperville quadrangle. It stands 459 feet above sea level.

Skipperville within Dale County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

61 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Skipperville between 1994 and 2020, burning about 363 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 burning34
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Recreation and ceremony4
Arson/incendiarism3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking1

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
4 September 1997Debris and open burning1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190924-20
18 September 1996Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionDALE COUNTY ROAD 15, AL
17 June 1998Debris and open burning4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
12 June 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 May 2020Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20200507-11
7 May 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20200507-3

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dale County

Storms near this place

18 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Skipperville in 18 storm reports between 2000 and 2026: 15 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash flood. 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
April 2020Thunderstorm WindSkipperville$50,000Homes were damaged in the Skipperville area.
April 2000Thunderstorm WindSkipperville$50,000Several downed trees and damaged utility buildings reported by the Dale County EMA.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindSkipperville$25,000The Country Crossroads in Skipperville sustained roof damage.
April 2015Flash FloodSkipperville$10,000County Road 333 also known as Morgan Church Road washed out.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindSkipperville$10,000Awnings were blown off at a construction site in Skipperville.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindSkipperville$5,000Numerous trees and power lines were blown down between Skipperville and Ozark due to downburst winds.
January 2020Thunderstorm WindSkipperville$2,000A tree and a power line were blown down in Skipperville.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindSkipperville$1,000Downed trees reported by the Dale County EMA.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindSkipperville-Numerous trees were down around Skipperville.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindSkipperville-A tree was blown down on CR33.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindSkipperville-A tree was blown down in the Skipperville area near the Methodist Church.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindSkipperville-A tree was blown down near Skipperville.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindSkipperville-A tree was blown down on Highway 105 near Skipperville.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindSkipperville-Trees were snapped or uprooted about 2 miles northwest of Skipperville.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindSkipperville-Trees were blown down north of Skipperville.
September 2015Thunderstorm WindSkipperville-Trees were blown down in the Skipperville area.
March 2020HailSkipperville-no account filed
April 2014HailSkipperville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Dale 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
Arguta2.8 miles7
Dykes Crossroad3.0 miles7
Roberts Crossroads3.1 miles7
Asbury3.2 miles7
Beamon3.4 miles7
Barefield Crossroads4.9 miles9
Phillips Crossroads5.2 miles7
Bells Crossroads5.6 miles9

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 SkippervilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7535805The 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 126940. 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.

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.