Swink, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Carlowville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36761. It stands on Dry Cedar Creek. The Survey maps it on the Pleasant Hill quadrangle.

Swink within Dallas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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.

1953 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Braggs quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1957 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1987 USGS Pleasant Hill quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

42 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Swink between 1995 and 2019, burning about 520 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 burning	19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Recreation and ceremony	4
Smoking	3
Arson/incendiarism	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
9 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160909-21
7 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	20 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2010	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
22 August 2010	Debris and open burning	32 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
9 July 2006	Arson/incendiarism	83 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
9 July 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dallas County

Storms near this place

1 since 2024

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Swink in 1 storm report in 2024: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Swink	-	Several trees were blown down in the area of County Roads 12, 85, and 4 northeast of Minter.

Every storm recorded in Dallas 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
Dawsons	1.7 miles	11
Richmond	3.6 miles	11
Carlowville	4.1 miles	11
Minter	4.1 miles	11
Elm Bluff	4.2 miles	12
Kings	4.5 miles	11
Pleasant Hill	4.8 miles	11
Belknap	4.8 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 157137. 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.