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Crosston, Alabama

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Gardendale census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35116. It stands on North Creek. The Survey maps it on the Pinson quadrangle.

Crosston within Jefferson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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

163 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 163 fires within 5 miles of Crosston between 1994 and 2019, burning about 1,341 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 45 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 burning64
Arson/incendiarism45
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Recreation and ceremony12
Railroad operations and maintenance7
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Natural4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2007Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 1995Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1997Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1995Debris and open burning2.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1995Debris and open burning10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2019Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190930-2
30 September 2007Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson 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 Crosston: 8 occurrences, 1 prospect, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, 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
Jef 3 Clay ProspectClayProspect
TarrantIronUnknown
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence

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
Monmouth1.0 miles28
Majestic2.1 miles27
Bradford2.2 miles23
White Oaks2.2 miles28
Columbus2.4 miles26
Fitzgerald Estates3.4 miles28
Pinson3.7 miles28
Self Creek3.8 miles26

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 Q122546874The 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 116910. 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.