Crawford Fork, Alabama

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Boligee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35443. It stands on Cobbs Branch. The Survey maps it on the Boligee quadrangle.

Crawford Fork within Greene County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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 Meridian quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Meridian quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Meridian quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Boligee quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1984 USGS De Kalb quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

95 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 95 fires within 5 miles of Crawford Fork between 1994 and 2019, burning about 559 acres in total. None started naturally. 32 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/incendiarism	32
Debris and open burning	20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18
Smoking	12
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
25 September 1999	Smoking	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 1999	Smoking	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 1997	Smoking	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1995	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
8 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190808-2
7 August 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greene County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Crawford Fork: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Swilley's Bend Quarry	Silica, Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Quartz
Bell Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Thetford Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Greene 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
Lizzieville	2.5 miles	9
New Mount Hebron	3.7 miles	9
Mount Hebron	4.1 miles	9
Boligee	4.5 miles	9
Allison	4.7 miles	15
Fowler	6.1 miles	13
Five Points	6.7 miles	13
Clinton	7.4 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 116829. 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.