Jenkins Crossroads, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Inverness census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36089. The Survey maps it on the Almeria quadrangle.

Jenkins Crossroads within Bullock County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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.

1955 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Almeria quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Tuskegee quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

96 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 96 fires within 5 miles of Jenkins Crossroads between 1994 and 2019, burning about 2,239 acres in total. None started naturally. 33 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	33
Debris and open burning	30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	24
Recreation and ceremony	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
3 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	SER-20130903-001
20 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	8.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190920-2
20 September 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	12 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
23 July 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20180723-1
2 July 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
13 July 1995	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
8 June 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bullock 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
Inverness	1.7 miles	8
Bread Tray Hill	2.6 miles	8
Postoak	3.0 miles	8
Omega	3.5 miles	8
Scottland	3.6 miles	8
Almeria	4.0 miles	8
Blues Old Stand	4.2 miles	7
Tito	4.3 miles	8

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 Q122597218

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 156528. 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.