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Crosby, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Gordon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36343. The Survey maps it on the Saffold quadrangle. It stands 141 feet above sea level.

Crosby 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

46 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Crosby between 1993 and 2020, burning about 335 acres in total. 1 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 burning18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Arson/incendiarism6
Smoking4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Other causes1
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
25 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceVICTORY RD (32)
23 September 2002Debris and open burning1.5 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-SEMINOLE-006
30 August 1995Recreation and ceremony6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 August 2007Natural3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 June 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 June 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
15 June 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 May 2001Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Houston County

Storms near this place

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crosby in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2019: 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
November 2011Thunderstorm WindCrosby$750A tree was blown down at 12901 E County Road 8. Monetary damage was estimated.
March 2019Thunderstorm WindCrosby-Trees were blown down near 10808 East County Road 8.

Every storm 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
Lucy2.7 miles8
Harmon5.1 miles8
Alaga6.1 miles9
Grangeburg7.0 miles8
Gordon7.1 miles9
Philadelphia8.5 miles9
Pansey9.3 miles7
Dupree10.0 miles7

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.

Wikipedia article on CrosbyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22058429The 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 156230. 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.

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.