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Guinn Cross Roads, Alabama

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Red Bay census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35653. It stands on Old Stand Spring Branch. The Survey maps it on the Guinn Cross Roads quadrangle.

Guinn Cross Roads within Franklin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

61 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Guinn Cross Roads between 1997 and 2019, burning about 852 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 47 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/incendiarism47
Debris and open burning6
Equipment and vehicle use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1
Natural1

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
4 September 1999Arson/incendiarism15 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1999Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 August 2000Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 August 2000Arson/incendiarism40 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 August 2000Arson/incendiarism35 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 August 1999Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 71 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 71 workings within 5 miles of Guinn Cross Roads: 54 unknowns, 17 occurrences. 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
Blacklidge TractIronOccurrence
Burrows TractIronOccurrence
Hargett TractIronOccurrence
J H Taylor Tract No. 2IronOccurrence
J H Taylor Tract No. 3IronOccurrence
Leon Taylor TractIronOccurrence
Sandlin TractIronOccurrence
Sloss Number 15IronUnknown
Sloss Number 17IronUnknown
Sloss Number 18IronUnknown

Every working recorded in Franklin 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
Dempsey1.4 miles12
Old Nauvoo2.5 miles12
Belgreen3.2 miles14
Piney Bend4.1 miles12
Jordans Mill4.5 miles11
Glasgow Corner4.6 miles14
White Oak5.6 miles19
Burntout5.8 miles11

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 Q122589656The 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 156438. 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.