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Floral Crest, Alabama

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Long Island census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35958. It stands on Duncan Creek. The Survey maps it on the Trenton quadrangle.

Floral Crest within Jackson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 23 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

422 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 422 fires within 5 miles of Floral Crest between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,190 acres in total. None started naturally. 117 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 burning238
Arson/incendiarism117
Missing data/not specified/undetermined38
Equipment and vehicle use13
Recreation and ceremony8
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020DADE005
7 September 1999Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1998Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-DADE-002
6 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-DADE-006
30 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2007Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Floral Crest: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
Unnamed, Lot 251, 10th DistrictIronPast ProducerStrataform, Concordant
Unnamed, Lot 37, 11th DistrictIronPast ProducerStrataform, Concordant

Every working 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
Eliza1.4 miles23
Higdon2.4 miles23
Bryant5.3 miles24
Overlook6.9 miles24
Liberty Hill7.3 miles24
Long Island8.1 miles24
Cameronsville8.2 miles24
Battery Hill8.3 miles24

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 Q122545398The 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 118441. 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.