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Christiana, Alabama

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Folsom census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36266. The Survey maps it on the Delta quadrangle.

Christiana within Randolph County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

77 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 77 fires within 5 miles of Christiana between 1994 and 2020, burning about 596 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 13 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 burning42
Arson/incendiarism13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Recreation and ceremony9
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Natural1

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
30 September 2007Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190913-12
12 September 1999Arson/incendiarism12 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 1999Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
26 August 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 August 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Randolph County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 30 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 30 workings within 5 miles of Christiana: 14 prospects, 12 past producers, 3 occurrences, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mica, Aluminum, Iron, Manganese. 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
East Clay County Gibbsite ProspectAluminumOccurrence1977
Ironaton Brown Ore MineIron, ManganesePast Producer1944
Clein Scrap-Mica DepositMicaProspect
Douglas Smith MineMicaPast Producer
Fletcher Smith MineMicaPast Producer
Foster MineMicaPast Producer
Griffin MineMicaPast Producer
J B Motes ProspectsMicaUnknown
J J New Bo. 4 ProspectMicaProspect
J J New No. 1 MineMicaPast Producer

Every working recorded in Randolph County

Storms near this place

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Christiana in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2017: 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2011Thunderstorm WindChristiana$5,000Several trees were blown down in the western portion of Randolph County. Some trees totally blocked roadways.
April 2017Thunderstorm WindChristiana-Several trees uprooted.

Every storm recorded in Randolph 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
Liberty1.1 miles12
Fuller Crossroad1.6 miles13
Dingler3.2 miles12
Ofelia4.3 miles12
Center West4.4 miles14
Swagg4.9 miles12
Milner5.4 miles13
Foster Crossroad5.5 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 159404. 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.