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Cypress Crest, Alabama

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Oakland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35633. The Survey maps it on the Florence quadrangle.

Cypress Crest within Lauderdale County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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

132 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 132 fires within 5 miles of Cypress Crest between 1997 and 2019, burning about 550 acres in total. None started naturally. 49 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/incendiarism49
Debris and open burning49
Smoking9
Equipment and vehicle use7
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Fireworks1

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
7 September 2002Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1999Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2013Equipment and vehicle use30 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNOR-20130903-001
29 September 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190929-11
29 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission115 COUNTY ROAD 249, AL
28 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2008Smokingunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionCOUNTY ROAD 200, AL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lauderdale 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 Cypress Crest: 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Silica, Aluminum. 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
Lister Hill Reduction PlantSilica, AluminumPlant

Every working recorded in Lauderdale 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
Country Club Acres0.6 miles19
Three Forks0.8 miles19
Cypress Heights1.1 miles19
Glendale Estates1.6 miles19
Cypress Forest1.7 miles19
Briarcliff2.0 miles19
Kimbrough Crossroads2.0 miles18
Canaan (historical)2.6 miles19

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 Q122559156The 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 145134. 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.