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Chancellor Crossroads, Alabama

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Vincent census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35078. It stands on Walthall Branch. The Survey maps it on the Harpersville quadrangle.

Chancellor Crossroads within Shelby County

On record in Chancellor Crossroads

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 21 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.

Photographs

1 photograph,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

William Chancellor House, Chancellor Crossroads, Harpersville, Shelby County, AL
William Chancellor House, Chancellor Crossroads, Harpersville, Shelby County, AL
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

136 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 136 fires within 5 miles of Chancellor Crossroads between 1994 and 2019, burning about 2,532 acres in total. None started naturally. 47 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
Arson/incendiarism47
Debris and open burning42
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Recreation and ceremony9
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Equipment and vehicle use4
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Fireworks2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
9 September 2002Arson/incendiarism80 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1995Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190927-6
23 September 2010Other causes1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2010Arson/incendiarism8.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2000Debris and open burning8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use10 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190916-16

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shelby County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Chancellor Crossroads: 12 unknowns, 4 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Barium-Barite, Manganese, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Butler Estate MineIron, ManganesePast Producer
Childersburg QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
T. J. FloreyBarium-BaritePast ProducerResidual
W.W.WyattBarium-BaritePast ProducerResidual
ChildsburgIronUnknown
F P Cater Iron Ore ProspectIronUnknown
Singleton Limonite DepositIronPast ProducerResidual
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown

Every working recorded in Shelby 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
Erratta1.5 miles19
Creswell2.4 miles21
Klein2.8 miles21
Harpersville3.9 miles21
Gallups Crossroads4.9 miles21
Arkwright5.2 miles21
Vincent6.1 miles22
Wilsonville6.2 miles25

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 Q122566232The 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 156167. 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.