Fannings Crossing, Alabama

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the New Market census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35761. It stands on Rodgers Branch. The Survey maps it on the New Market quadrangle.

Fannings Crossing within Madison County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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 Scottsboro quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Scottsboro quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1936 USGS New Market quadrangle1:24000
1949 USGS New Market quadrangle1:24000
1951 USGS New Market quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Huntsville quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

40 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Fannings Crossing between 1997 and 2015, burning about 288 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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	23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Arson/incendiarism	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Smoking	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
8 September 1999	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1999	Smoking	10 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
23 August 2008	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	4569 WINCHESTER RD, AL
20 August 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	391 COUNTY LAKE RD, NEW MARKET, AL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison 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
Buckhorn	1.3 miles	24
New Market	2.0 miles	20
Deposit	2.3 miles	24
Saint Clair Store	3.6 miles	24
Union Grove	3.7 miles	20
Hillsboro	3.9 miles	20
Sulphur Springs	4.1 miles	21
Greenfield	4.2 miles	24

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 Q122551506

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 156342. 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.