Weoka Mills, Alabama

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Titus census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36080. It stands on Pinkston Creek. The Survey maps it on the Holtville quadrangle.

Weoka Mills within Elmore County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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.

1901 USGS Wetumpka quadrangle1:125000
1903 USGS Wetumpka quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1953 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Elmore quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1975 USGS Elmore NE quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Clanton quadrangle1:100000
1987 USGS Clanton quadrangle1:100000
1987 USGS Holtville quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

145 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 145 fires within 5 miles of Weoka Mills between 1994 and 2019, burning about 591 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	50
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	24
Recreation and ceremony	21
Arson/incendiarism	19
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	5
Natural	4
Other causes	1
Smoking	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
7 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	93 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2014	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	ECR-20140917-001
16 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1998	Debris and open burning	1.8 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Elmore 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
Titus	2.3 miles	16
Buyck	2.8 miles	16
Ten Cedars Estates	3.1 miles	16
Riddle	3.3 miles	16
Holtville	3.4 miles	16
Coosa River	4.3 miles	16
Adkin Hill	5.1 miles	17
Lightwood	5.1 miles	15

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 Q122562972

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 157234. 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.