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Kendall Crossroads, Alabama

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Waverly census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36862. The Survey maps it on the Camp Hill SE quadrangle.

Kendall Crossroads within Chambers County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

98 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 98 fires within 5 miles of Kendall Crossroads between 1994 and 2020, burning about 841 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 16 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 burning41
Arson/incendiarism16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Equipment and vehicle use9
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking3
Natural3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
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
6 September 1997Debris and open burning11 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2016Debris and open burning20 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160925-8
25 September 2004Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2018Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20180923-4
23 September 2016Debris and open burning8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160923-19
21 September 2008Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2019Debris and open burning10 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190916-12

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chambers County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Kendall Crossroads: 2 past producers, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Aluminum, Clay, Mica, Gold. 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
Doc Heard ProspectMicaPast Producer
Rippatoe PlacerGoldPast Producer
Unnamed OccurrenceAluminum, ClayOccurrence1982
Unnamed OccurrenceAluminum, ClayOccurrence1982

Every working recorded in Chambers 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
Culebra2.0 miles12
Blackman2.4 miles12
Sturkie3.4 miles12
Moorefield3.4 miles12
New Harmony4.1 miles12
Judson4.2 miles12
Sikes4.5 miles10
Liberty Crossroads5.5 miles12

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 Q122545886The 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 164070. 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.