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Jonesboro, Alabama

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1925 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Russellville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35653. The Survey maps it on the Frankfort quadrangle.

Jonesboro within Franklin 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.

Fires near this place

129 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 129 fires within 5 miles of Jonesboro between 1997 and 2019, burning about 832 acres in total. None started naturally. 47 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 burning53
Arson/incendiarism47
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking2
Fireworks1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
23 September 2010Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2010Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2010Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2010Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190921-7
21 September 2010Debris and open burning25 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2010Debris and open burning27 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 116 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 116 workings within 5 miles of Jonesboro: 98 unknowns, 16 occurrences, 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
Cedar CreekIronUnknown
DebardelebenIronUnknown
MacyIronUnknown
PinkneyIronUnknown
Russellville Brown Iron Ore MinesIronPast Producer1818, 1974
Russellville MineIronProducer
SewaneeIronUnknown
Sloss Number 10IronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown

Every working recorded in Franklin County

Storms near this place

2 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jonesboro in 2 storm reports between 2020 and 2023: 2 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2023Thunderstorm WindJonesboro$10,000A large tree was knocked down onto a car and house at the intersection of Dunkin Creek Road and Waterloo Road.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindJonesboro$200A tree was knocked down on CR 73. Time estimated by radar.

Every storm recorded in Franklin 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
Fairview1.8 miles20
Woodlawn Heights2.7 miles20
Hester Heights3.0 miles20
Good Springs3.6 miles20
Russellville3.8 miles20
Reedtown4.2 miles14
Frankfort4.2 miles19
Gravel Hill5.0 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 136189. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.