Fowlers Crossroads, Alabama

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Northeast Fayette census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35542. The Survey maps it on the Hubbertville quadrangle.

Fowlers Crossroads within Fayette County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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.

1953 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Hubbertville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Jasper quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

57 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Fowlers Crossroads between 1994 and 2019, burning about 362 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 24 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/incendiarism	24
Debris and open burning	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Recreation and ceremony	6
Natural	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2

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 1995	Recreation and ceremony	3.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2018	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20180925-1
25 September 2010	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	12 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	30 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	16 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	FROST RD, AL
10 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	12 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fayette 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
Studdards Crossroads	4.1 miles	11
Hubbertville	4.5 miles	10
Howard	6.3 miles	11
Bazemore	6.7 miles	11
Pea Ridge	6.8 miles	12
Cleveland	7.7 miles	10
Stough	8.5 miles	10
Bankston	9.0 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 118575. 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.