Kimbrough Crossroads, Alabama

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Oakland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35633. It stands on McIntyre Ditch. The Survey maps it on the Sinking Creek quadrangle.

Kimbrough Crossroads within Lauderdale County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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
1954 USGS Sinking Creek 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

189 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 189 fires within 5 miles of Kimbrough Crossroads between 1993 and 2019, burning about 1,396 acres in total. None started naturally. 73 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	73
Debris and open burning	66
Equipment and vehicle use	15
Smoking	15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Recreation and ceremony	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Fireworks	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
7 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1999	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	2.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	30 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	NOR-20130903-001
29 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190929-11
29 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	115 COUNTY ROAD 249, AL
28 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2010	Debris and open burning	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
Glendale Estates	1.5 miles	19
Cypress Forest	1.8 miles	19
McGee Town	1.9 miles	19
Cypress Crest	2.0 miles	19
Oakland	2.2 miles	18
Glen Oaks	2.2 miles	18
Lovelace Crossroads	2.4 miles	18
Country Club Acres	2.5 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 Q122543666

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 121201. 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.