Wiggins, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Andalusia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36421. It stands on Sasser Branch. The Survey maps it on the Opp West quadrangle. It stands 315 feet above sea level.

Wiggins within Covington 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.

1953 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Opp West quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

60 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Wiggins between 1994 and 2019, burning about 465 acres in total. None 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 burning	24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Arson/incendiarism	8
Recreation and ceremony	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	2

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
29 September 2001	Equipment and vehicle use	4.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	4.2 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	40 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190920-12
19 August 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	8.9 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
31 July 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190731-2
24 July 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	SER-20150724-001
9 June 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	6.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
28 June 2012	Arson/incendiarism	8.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	SER-20120628-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Covington County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 34 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 34 workings within 5 miles of Wiggins: 25 unknowns, 9 occurrences. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown

Every working recorded in Covington 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
Opine	2.3 miles	8
Cedar Grove	2.5 miles	8
Babbie	2.5 miles	8
Sanford	3.4 miles	8
Harmony	3.8 miles	8
Eoda	4.1 miles	8
Opp	4.5 miles	8
Horn Hill	4.9 miles	7

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 Wiggins	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22058598	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 128940. 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.