Crichton, Alabama

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 2 records

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

• Georgia Cottagelisted 1972 · 0.8 miles away
• Blue Bird Hardware and Seedlisted 2018 · 0.8 miles away

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.

• 1922 USGS Mobile quadrangle1:62500
• 1940 USGS Mobile quadrangle1:31680, 3 printings
• 1940 USGS Mobile quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
• 1943 USGS Mobile quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
• 1944 USGS Mobile quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
• 1953 USGS Mobile quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
• 1953 USGS Mobile quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1957 USGS Mobile quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1960 USGS Mobile quadrangle1:250000
• 1963 USGS Mobile quadrangle1:250000
• 1965 USGS Mobile quadrangle1:250000
• 1984 USGS Mobile quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1984 USGS Mobile quadrangle1:100000
• 1994 USGS Mobile quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Crichton between 1994 and 2017, burning about 338 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 17 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Tacon
• Toulminville
• Allenville
• Bridlewood
• Brookwood
• Country Club Estates

Every fire recorded in Mobile County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Crichton: 6 producers, 3 past producers, 2 plants. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Calcium, Perlite, Titanium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Mobile County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 116868. 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.