Bells 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.

Bells 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.

1953 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Clopton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Troy quadrangle1:100000
1997 USGS Clopton quadrangle1:50000

Fires near this place

37 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Bells Crossroads between 1994 and 2020, burning about 163 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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 burning	18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Arson/incendiarism	5
Recreation and ceremony	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
24 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190924-20
14 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 July 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
19 June 1995	Railroad operations and maintenance	15 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 May 2020	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20200506-49
23 May 1996	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
21 May 2007	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
11 May 2011	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	CO RD 67, AL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dale County

Storms near this place

1 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bells Crossroads in 1 storm report in 2018: 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Bells Crossroads	-	A tree was blown down near Bells Crossroads.

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Snells Crossroads	0.8 miles	9
Bertha	1.8 miles	9
Barefield Crossroads	2.0 miles	9
Echo	3.3 miles	8
Snow Hill	4.6 miles	8
Asbury	5.1 miles	7
Skipperville	5.6 miles	7
Clopton	6.0 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 113892. 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.