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Haynes Crossing, Alabama

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Stevenson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35772. It stands on Wimberly Branch. The Survey maps it on the Doran Cove quadrangle.

Haynes Crossing 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

55 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Haynes Crossing between 1994 and 2019, burning about 1,599 acres in total. None started naturally. 19 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 burning22
Arson/incendiarism19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 1998Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1998Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190929-1
22 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined18 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190922-15
20 September 1998Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 1998Smoking1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1998Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Haynes Crossing: 2 prospects, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Manganese, Clay. 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
Jac 1 Clay ProspectClayProspect
Pace ProspectIron, ManganeseProspect
Childers MineIronPast Producer

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
New Town0.6 miles22
Edgefield1.5 miles23
Stevenson1.6 miles22
Pinder Hill1.8 miles22
Card Switch2.2 miles22
Harris2.3 miles23
Browns Valley (historical)3.0 miles23
Bolivar3.0 miles23

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 Q122543352The 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 119900. 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.