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McFrey Crossroads, Alabama

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Centre census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36272. It stands on Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Piedmont quadrangle. It stands 702 feet above sea level.

McFrey Crossroads within Cherokee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

287 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 287 fires within 5 miles of McFrey Crossroads between 1993 and 2020, burning about 7,441 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 162 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/incendiarism162
Debris and open burning74
Missing data/not specified/undetermined33
Equipment and vehicle use6
Recreation and ceremony6
Natural3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
9 September 2007Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreNational Forests in AlabamaZONE ABC #2
7 September 2008Arson/incendiarism36 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionOFF HWY 278, AL
6 September 1998Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190905-13
5 September 1997Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1998Arson/incendiarism14 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1998Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cherokee County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 55 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 55 workings within 5 miles of McFrey Crossroads: 18 unknowns, 13 prospects, 12 occurrences, 11 past producers. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Manganese, Aluminum, Cobalt, Manganese. 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
DupontAluminum, Water, FreePast Producer1897
Harbour and Thompson ProspectsNickel, Cobalt, ManganeseOccurrence
Hughes ProspectManganese, IronProspect1953
Johnson ProspectAluminum, KaolinProspect
Stewart MineClayProducer
Stock PropertyManganese, StoneProspect1949
Hughes DepositsManganese, CobaltPast ProducerWad
Pope-Hughes ProspectManganese, CobaltPast Producer
Harbour PropertyCobalt, ManganeseOccurrence
Pope HughesCobalt, ManganeseOccurrence1938

Every working recorded in Cherokee 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
Spring Garden1.1 miles17
Sanford Springs2.9 miles18
Pleasant Gap3.0 miles17
Frog Mountain3.2 miles18
Mona (historical)3.7 miles18
Old Coloma4.4 miles18
Exie5.2 miles18
Gnatville5.5 miles16

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.

Wikipedia article on McFrey CrossroadsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q19987039The 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 160073. 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.