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Crockard Junction, Alabama

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Maytown-Sylvan Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35224. It lies near Knowles Island. The Survey maps it on the Adamsville quadrangle.

Crockard Junction within Jefferson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 28 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

225 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 225 fires within 5 miles of Crockard Junction between 1994 and 2019, burning about 3,639 acres in total. None started naturally. 101 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/incendiarism101
Debris and open burning57
Missing data/not specified/undetermined33
Railroad operations and maintenance14
Recreation and ceremony9
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160909-14
6 September 1998Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1998Arson/incendiarism40 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2016Arson/incendiarism40 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160929-27
29 September 1995Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2016Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160928-8
26 September 2019Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190926-16
23 September 2015Power generation/transmission/distribution6.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNER-20150923-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Crockard Junction: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Watkins Number 1 PitClayProducer

Every working recorded in Jefferson 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
Maytown0.6 miles28
Mulga1.1 miles28
Booker Heights1.3 miles22
Edgewater Junction1.4 miles28
Mulga Mine1.5 miles28
Edgewater1.6 miles28
Bay View1.7 miles28
Sylvan Springs2.1 miles22

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 Q122570729The 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 156226. 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.