Dyers Crossroads, Alabama

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Vinemont census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35179. It stands on Gay Branch. The Survey maps it on the Cullman quadrangle.

Dyers Crossroads within Cullman County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

1888 USGS Cullman quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Cullman quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Cullman quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Guntersville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

75 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of Dyers Crossroads between 1997 and 2020, burning about 338 acres in total. None started naturally. 14 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 burning	36
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Arson/incendiarism	14
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
7 September 1998	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1999	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 1999	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	NER-20140924-002
23 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	1.2 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2019	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190922-7

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cullman 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Providence	1.7 miles	17
Mount View	1.9 miles	17
South Vinemont	2.4 miles	19
Vinemont	2.5 miles	19
North Vinemont	2.8 miles	17
Pleasant View	3.1 miles	19
Northwood	3.3 miles	19
Longview	3.5 miles	20

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 Q122541141

The 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 117711. 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.