German Crossing, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Lynn census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35575. It stands on West Prong Blackwater Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lynn quadrangle.

German Crossing within Winston County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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.

1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Lynn quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Haleyville quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

139 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 139 fires within 5 miles of German Crossing between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,537 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 58 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	58
Debris and open burning	46
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Recreation and ceremony	6
Smoking	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Natural	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	9.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2000	Natural	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	7.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 1999	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Winston 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
Lynn	0.9 miles	11
Black Swamp (historical)	1.5 miles	11
Larissa (historical)	1.6 miles	11
High Point	2.7 miles	11
Farriss (historical)	3.1 miles	11
Natural Bridge	3.4 miles	11
Goat Ranch (historical)	3.6 miles	12
Kaeiser Bottoms (historical)	4.8 miles	11

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 Q122593078

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 159658. 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.