Johnson Crossroads, Alabama

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Cloverdale census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35633. It stands on Posey Branch. The Survey maps it on the Threet quadrangle.

Johnson Crossroads within Lauderdale County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

1924 USGS Gravelly Springs quadrangle1:62500
1924 USGS Gravelly Springs quadrangle1:48000
1926 USGS Gravelly Springs quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1936 USGS Threet quadrangle1:24000
1954 USGS Threet quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1986 USGS Tuscumbia quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

206 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 206 fires within 5 miles of Johnson Crossroads between 1995 and 2020, burning about 1,085 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 85 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	85
Debris and open burning	69
Equipment and vehicle use	21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Smoking	10
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Natural	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
8 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2001	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2001	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lauderdale 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
Cloverdale	1.9 miles	19
Bethel Grove	2.5 miles	17
Fairview	3.6 miles	17
Threet	4.2 miles	19
Zip City	4.3 miles	17
Sharps Mill	4.4 miles	17
Keys Chapel (historical)	4.5 miles	17
Sullivan Crossroads	4.9 miles	19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156535. 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.