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Duncan Crossroads, Alabama

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Section census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35771. The Survey maps it on the Dutton quadrangle.

Duncan Crossroads within Jackson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 21 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

108 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 108 fires within 5 miles of Duncan Crossroads between 1995 and 2020, burning about 1,414 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 27 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 burning38
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Arson/incendiarism27
Recreation and ceremony7
Equipment and vehicle use5
Natural1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 1998Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 1995Recreation and ceremony6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2016Arson/incendiarism11 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160906-16
6 September 2010Debris and open burning18 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined18 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1998Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2016Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160903-3
29 September 2014Arson/incendiarism10 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNOR-20140929-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson 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
Bellview1.0 miles21
Hannah (historical)1.7 miles21
Rock City2.1 miles21
Talley (historical)3.9 miles21
Hancock Crossroads4.2 miles21
Section4.5 miles21
Dutton4.6 miles21
Macedonia4.9 miles20

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 Q122552605The 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 117663. 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.