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Wing, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Falco census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36483. The Survey maps it on the Wing quadrangle. It stands 266 feet above sea level.

Wing 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.

Fires near this place

83 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 83 fires within 5 miles of Wing between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,471 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 11 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Debris and open burning21
Arson/incendiarism11
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Natural5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking2
Other causes1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
28 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceGOOD HOPE (46)
30 August 2000Natural3.0 acresNational Forests in AlabamaDOUGLAS
19 August 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNational Forests in AlabamaD-8
17 July 2000Debris and open burning8.0 acresNational Forests in AlabamaFRACTION
10 July 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution7.5 acresNational Forests in AlabamaKIOSK
8 June 2008Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 June 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.0 acresNational Forests in AlabamaCOTTON FIELD FIRE
5 June 2006Natural412 acresNational Forests in AlabamaSAND POINT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Covington County

Storms near this place

6 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wing in 6 storm reports between 1999 and 2008: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 lightning. 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
December 2000Thunderstorm WindWing$20,000High winds from a thunderstorm blew down several trees along County Road 4 near Givens Bridge. One of the trees fell near a home and damaged a porch and two vehicles parked near in the driveway.
June 2008LightningWing$20,000no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindWing$5,000High winds from a thunderstorm blew down several trees along State Highway 137, north of Wing.
May 2001Thunderstorm WindWing$3,000High winds from a thunderstorm blew down several trees near Wing. Heavy rainfall was also reported.
April 1999HailWing-Dine size hail was reported near Wing.
May 1999HailWing-Dime size hail was reported just northeast of Wing.

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Falco1.5 miles8
Beda2.2 miles8
Rome8.5 miles9
Shiloh9.0 miles7
Huckaville10.9 miles7
Red Oak11.1 miles7
Lakeview (historical)11.3 miles7
Lockhart13.9 miles8

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 WingAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q8025065The 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 129115. 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.