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Gallups Crossroads, Alabama

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Vincent census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35078. It stands on Moore Branch. The Survey maps it on the Harpersville quadrangle.

Gallups Crossroads within Shelby County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

153 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 153 fires within 5 miles of Gallups Crossroads between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,690 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 53 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/incendiarism53
Debris and open burning43
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Recreation and ceremony10
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Smoking4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Other causes3
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Fireworks1

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
8 September 1995Debris and open burning6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1995Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1995Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1995Arson/incendiarism25 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2016Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160929-30
25 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionNER-20140925-002
25 September 2005Arson/incendiarism58 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2010Other causes1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shelby County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Gallups Crossroads: 5 past producers, 2 unknowns, 2 prospects, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Barium-Barite, 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
F P Cater Iron Ore ProspectIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
Luther Davis MineBarium-BaritePast Producer
Luther Davis PropertyBarium-BaritePast ProducerResidual
R P Tucker ProspectBarium-BariteProspect
T C Elliott ProspectBarium-BariteOccurrence
T S Florey ProspectBarium-BariteProspect
T. J. FloreyBarium-BaritePast ProducerResidual
W W Wyatt MineBarium-BaritePast Producer
W.W.WyattBarium-BaritePast ProducerResidual

Every working recorded in Shelby 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
Harpersville1.3 miles21
Abbot Springs1.4 miles21
Arkwright3.5 miles21
Vincent3.6 miles22
Westover4.0 miles20
Creswell4.3 miles21
Klein4.6 miles21
Chancellor Crossroads4.9 miles21

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 Q122541284The 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 156391. 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.