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Wininger, Alabama

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Scottsboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35776. The Survey maps it on the Lim Rock quadrangle.

Wininger within Jackson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 21 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

20 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Wininger between 1996 and 2016, burning about 137 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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 burning6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Arson/incendiarism4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking1
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
9 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160909-10
6 September 1999Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20160916-2
20 July 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 July 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 June 2007Equipment and vehicle use20 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 June 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined35 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNOR-20150615-001
21 April 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNOR-20140421-003

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Wininger: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Jac 3 Clay ProspectClayProspect

Every working recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this place

2 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wininger in 2 storm reports between 2015 and 2018: 1 flash flood, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2018Thunderstorm WindWininger$100A tree was knocked down at CR 17 at Skyline Monument Company.
December 2015Flash FloodWininger-Water covering numerous roads in Scottsboro and in much of the eastern part of the county. Numerous road closures.

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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
Letcher0.6 miles22
Pierceton (historical)2.3 miles21
Little Nashville3.9 miles22
Larkinsville4.0 miles21
Cumberland Mountain Farm Colony (historical)4.3 miles24
Tupelo4.4 miles24
Trenton4.9 miles25
Lim Rock5.1 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 157270. 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.

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.