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Barefield Crossroads, Alabama

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Echo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36374. The Survey maps it on the Clopton quadrangle.

Barefield Crossroads within Dale County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Barefield Crossroads between 1994 and 2020, burning about 163 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 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 burning14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Arson/incendiarism6
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
24 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190924-20
6 July 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 June 1995Railroad operations and maintenance15 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 May 2020Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20200506-49
24 May 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionCR 6 / OFF HWY41, AL
23 May 1996Debris and open burning1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
11 May 2011Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionCO RD 67, AL
29 April 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined24 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dale County

Storms near this place

4 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Barefield Crossroads in 4 storm reports between 2020 and 2026: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash 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 2026Thunderstorm WindBarefield Crossroads-A tree was down and blocking County Road 64.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindBarefield Crossroads-A tree was blown down on County Road 69.
March 2020Thunderstorm WindBarefield Crossroads-A tree was blown down on County Road 67.
September 2020Flash FloodBarefield Crossroads-Part of Highway 105 near County Road 41 was washed out.

Every storm recorded in Dale 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
Bertha1.5 miles9
Snells Crossroads2.0 miles9
Bells Crossroads2.0 miles9
Clopton4.1 miles9
Skipperville4.9 miles7
Roberts Crossroads5.3 miles7
Echo5.3 miles8
Asbury5.6 miles7

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 Q122549757The 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 156023. 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.