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Clark Crossroads, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Madrid census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36305. It stands on Pinhook Creek. The Survey maps it on the Dothan West quadrangle.

Clark Crossroads within Houston County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

48 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Clark Crossroads between 1994 and 2019, burning about 482 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 burning15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Arson/incendiarism6
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1
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
4 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionSER-20140904-001
28 September 2003Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use19 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionCO RD 49, AL
17 August 2000Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
21 July 2000Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
1 July 2019Debris and open burning8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190701-5
28 June 2019Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190628-1
20 June 2000Misuse of fire by a minor22 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Houston County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Clark Crossroads: 4 producers, 3 unknowns, 3 occurrences. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Couch Construction Co. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Couch Number 6 QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerQuartz
Reese QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerQuartz
Reese QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerQuartz
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
Unnamed DepositIronOccurrence
Unnamed DepositIronOccurrence
Unnamed DepositIronOccurrence

Every working recorded in Houston 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
Peterman0.4 miles8
Trawick Road Estates0.7 miles8
Tabernacle1.0 miles8
Jones Crossroads1.2 miles8
Green Acres1.7 miles8
Spann Brothers Estates1.9 miles8
Parker Village1.9 miles8
Taylor2.1 miles8

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 Q122550279The 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 156183. 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.