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Morrison Crossroad, Alabama

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Folsom census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36280. It stands on Little Pineywood Creek. The Survey maps it on the Newell quadrangle. 221 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,112 feet above sea level.

Morrison Crossroad within Randolph County

Population over time

2 figures

Morrison Crossroad grew from 219 to 221 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010219
2020221+2 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

145 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 145 fires within 5 miles of Morrison Crossroad between 1994 and 2020, burning about 900 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 28 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 burning71
Arson/incendiarism28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Recreation and ceremony13
Equipment and vehicle use4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Smoking2
Natural1
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
8 September 2016Debris and open burning2.2 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160908-2
5 September 2016Debris and open burning3.8 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160905-4
4 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1995Recreation and ceremony2.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2019Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190919-30
17 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190917-3
14 September 1998Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1994Recreation and ceremony1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Randolph County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 36 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 36 workings within 5 miles of Morrison Crossroad: 21 past producers, 12 prospects, 2 occurrences, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Mica, Gold, Sulfur, Copper. 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
Stone Hill MineSulfur, CopperPast Producer1874
Ayers ProspectGoldOccurrenceGold
Ayers ProspectGoldProspect
Pine Tuckey Gold MineGoldPast ProducerVein
Pinetucky MineGoldPast ProducerVein
Pinetucky MineGoldPast Producer
Arthemus Morrison MineMicaPast Producer
Chas Boyd MineMicaPast Producer
Crens MineMicaPast Producer
Great Souathern No. 1 MineMicaPast Producer

Every working recorded in Randolph 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
Union0.6 miles12
Jordan Chapel2.1 miles12
Cavers Grove2.4 miles12
Cedron3.0 miles13
Milner3.2 miles13
Newell3.2 miles12
Smyrna3.3 miles12
Foster Crossroad3.3 miles13

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 Morrison CrossroadAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1265103The 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 156737. 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.