Howells Crossroads, Alabama

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Spring Garden census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35960. It lies near Godfreys Island. The Survey maps it on the Cedar Bluff quadrangle.

Howells Crossroads within Cherokee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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.

1893 USGS Fort Payne quadrangle1:125000
1898 USGS Fort Payne quadrangle1:125000
1900 USGS Fort Payne quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1955 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Cedar Bluff quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1981 USGS Rome quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

165 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 165 fires within 5 miles of Howells Crossroads between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,153 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 100 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	100
Debris and open burning	34
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18
Smoking	6
Natural	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
6 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	60 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2007	Debris and open burning	16 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160925-10
25 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	NER-20140924-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cherokee 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
Newberry Crossroads	1.8 miles	19
Alexis	1.8 miles	19
Newberry Cove	1.9 miles	19
Meadows Estates	2.5 miles	19
Alpine Shores	2.9 miles	19
Summer Estates	2.9 miles	19
Oceola	3.2 miles	17
Noah	3.2 miles	19

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 Q122598300

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 155109. 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.