Brantley Crossing, Alabama

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Lyeffion census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36401. The Survey maps it on the Belleville quadrangle.

Brantley Crossing within Conecuh County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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 Andalusia quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Belleville quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Atmore quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

141 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 141 fires within 5 miles of Brantley Crossing between 1994 and 2019, burning about 2,872 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 36 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	53
Arson/incendiarism	36
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	24
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Recreation and ceremony	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Natural	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Other causes	1
Smoking	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
8 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	22 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	20 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2008	Debris and open burning	34 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	55 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	30 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2004	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	302 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2007	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Conecuh 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 Brantley Crossing: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unnamed	Iron	Unknown

Every working recorded in Conecuh 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
Stokes	1.2 miles	7
Nichburg	1.5 miles	8
Loree	1.7 miles	7
Bermuda	3.7 miles	8
Burnt Corn	4.5 miles	7
Belleville	4.6 miles	7
Bookers Mill	5.1 miles	8
Fairnelson	5.2 miles	8

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 Q122596105

The 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 114839. 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.