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Bailey Crossroads, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Slocomb census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36344. The Survey maps it on the Malvern quadrangle.

Bailey Crossroads within Geneva County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

34 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Bailey Crossroads between 1998 and 2020, burning about 550 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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 burning13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use6
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Natural1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Other causes1
Smoking1

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
4 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionSER-20140904-001
28 September 2003Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use19 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionCO RD 49, AL
2 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1999Debris and open burning10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 June 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 June 1998Naturalunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 May 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined312 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionCUMBIE RD, AL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Geneva County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Bailey Crossroads: 15 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Box QuarryClay, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown

Every working recorded in Geneva County

Storms near this place

6 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bailey Crossroads in 6 storm reports between 2020 and 2026: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. 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
September 2020Flash FloodBailey Crossroads$500,000All county roads and bridges in Geneva county were deemed closed due to flooding. Damage cost was estimated.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindBailey Crossroads$2,000A transmission pole was broken in a field just east of N County Road 9 and Upton Road.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindBailey Crossroads-Trees were down on N County Road 49.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindBailey Crossroads-Trees were down and blocking the road on South County Road 49.
August 2021Tornado (EF0)Bailey Crossroads-A tornado touched down in fields west of Pates Road in Geneva County. The tornado tracked across mostly farmland into Houston County before damaging a barn and dissipating near Cumbie Road. Video on social media showed a very narrow tornado tracking across a peanut field near the Houston-Geneva County Border. Max winds were estimated near 80 mph.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindBailey Crossroads-A tree was down at CR49 and CR68.

Every storm recorded in Geneva 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
Bald Hill2.9 miles12
Malvern5.3 miles11
Slocomb5.7 miles11
Dundee6.4 miles11
High Bluff7.7 miles12
Hartford8.2 miles11
Fadette10.5 miles11
Bellwood10.6 miles11

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 Q122552257The 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 156012. 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.