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Linn Crossing, Alabama

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Brookside census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35073. The Survey maps it on the Brookside quadrangle.

Linn Crossing within Jefferson County

On record in Linn Crossing

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 28 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

294 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 294 fires within 5 miles of Linn Crossing between 1994 and 2019, burning about 5,126 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 136 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/incendiarism136
Debris and open burning94
Missing data/not specified/undetermined33
Recreation and ceremony12
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Natural5
Misuse of fire by a minor2
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
7 September 1997Arson/incendiarism20 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1997Arson/incendiarism20 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2003Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionPICKLE DRIVE, AL
5 September 1998Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenance15 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1998Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1998Arson/incendiarism30 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Linn Crossing: 2 occurrences, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Aluminum, Clay. 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
Jef 1 Clay ProspectClayProspect
Waste Pond - Bessie MineAluminumOccurrenceIllite, Kaolinite
Waste Pond - Flat Top MineAluminumOccurrenceIllite, Kaolinite

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

1 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Linn Crossing in 1 storm report in 2020: 1 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
April 2020Thunderstorm WindLinn Crossing-Gust recorded by a UAH mobile mesonet.

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Chetopa0.1 miles28
Vulcan1.3 miles28
Littleton1.9 miles28
Jet1.9 miles28
Sayre2.5 miles28
Alden2.6 miles28
Brents Cross Roads2.7 miles28
West Sayre2.8 miles28

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 Q122572911The 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 152076. 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.