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Holley Crossroads, Alabama

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Choccolocco census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36207. It lies near Cottaquilla Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Jacksonville East quadrangle.

Holley Crossroads within Calhoun County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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

175 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 175 fires within 5 miles of Holley Crossroads between 1992 and 2019, burning about 4,000 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 51 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 burning63
Arson/incendiarism51
Recreation and ceremony23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Natural11
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Other causes1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2015Arson/incendiarism21 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNER-20150908-002
6 September 2010Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2001Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionNER-20150924-003
22 September 1997Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1997Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Calhoun County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 36 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 36 workings within 5 miles of Holley Crossroads: 16 unknowns, 8 occurrences, 6 past producers, 6 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Aluminum, Kaolin, Cobalt, Nickel. 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
Burke EstateCobalt, NickelOccurrence
Burke EstateCobalt, NickelOccurrence
Coleman PropertyManganesePast Producer1930
Horace Davis ProspectIron, ManganesePast Producer1949
Alabama Mineral Land Co. ProspectAluminum, KaolinProspect
Dothard ProspectAluminum, KaolinProspect
Boozer ProspectAluminumProspect
Borden ProspectAluminumOccurrence
Kitchens ProspectAluminumProspect
Love ProspectAluminumProspect

Every working recorded in Calhoun 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
Jenkins0.7 miles18
Hollingsworth1.8 miles18
Hallingworth2.5 miles18
Rabbittown2.5 miles18
Whites Gap3.4 miles18
Eastwood3.7 miles17
White Plains3.7 miles19
Nances Creek4.1 miles18

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 Q122589978The 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 159789. 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.