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Winton, Alabama

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Somerville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35670. It lies near Section Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Mason Ridge quadrangle.

Winton within Morgan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 24 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

110 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 110 fires within 5 miles of Winton between 1994 and 2018, burning about 1,301 acres in total. None started naturally. 17 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 burning40
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Arson/incendiarism17
Recreation and ceremony11
Equipment and vehicle use11
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Smoking2

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
6 September 1999Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use20 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1999Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1998Debris and open burning8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2016Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160928-41
28 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresWheeler National Wildlife RefugeFM 98-7

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morgan County

Storms near this place

9 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Winton in 9 storm reports between 2011 and 2025: 8 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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
April 2011Thunderstorm WindWinton$5,000Trees were knocked down on Section Mountain Road.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindWinton$2,000A tree was knocked down in front of a vehicle and blocking the road at 5737 East Upper River Road. Time estimated by radar.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindWinton$1,000A tree was knocked down and hanging over the roadway at 1039 Charest Road.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindWinton$1,000A tree was knocked down into the roadway at the intersection of Charest road and Section Mountain road. Time was estimated from radar.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindWinton$1,000A tree was knocked down and blocking the roadway on Sharp Ford Road at this location. Time was estimated by radar.
January 2023Thunderstorm WindWinton$200A tree was knocked down.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindWinton$200A tree was knocked down onto the road. Time estimated by radar.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindWinton$200A large tree was down on East River Road.
May 2013FloodWinton-Heavy rainfall produced flooding with three to four feet of water covering the road in the 900 block of Lower Dry Creek Road, just west-northwest of Lacey's Spring, Alabama.

Every storm recorded in Morgan 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
Echols Crossroads2.3 miles24
Bluff City2.8 miles24
Rocky Point3.1 miles24
Valhermoso Springs3.5 miles23
Somerville3.7 miles20
Union3.9 miles20
Woodland Mills3.9 miles20
Talucah4.1 miles23

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 157274. 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.