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Toinette, Alabama

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Wagarville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36585. It stands on Denham Branch. The Survey maps it on the McIntosh quadrangle.

Toinette within Washington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

89 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 89 fires within 5 miles of Toinette between 1994 and 2020, burning about 3,586 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 37 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
Arson/incendiarism37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Debris and open burning19
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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
15 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 August 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 August 2000Naturalunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
13 August 2000Arson/incendiarism22 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
13 August 2000Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 July 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 July 1994Debris and open burning45 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington 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
New Wakefield1.4 miles14
Sunflower3.0 miles14
Hawthorn4.3 miles14
McIntosh5.2 miles14
Cortelyou5.8 miles14
Wagarville6.8 miles14
Wagar7.1 miles11
Reid Settlement8.0 miles15

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 Q122555485The 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 157163. 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.