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Murrycross, Alabama

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Turkeytown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35901. It lies near Bar Hill. The Survey maps it on the Ballplay quadrangle.

Murrycross within Etowah County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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

127 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 127 fires within 5 miles of Murrycross between 1994 and 2020, burning about 2,854 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 49 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/incendiarism49
Missing data/not specified/undetermined42
Debris and open burning25
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural2
Smoking1
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
24 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2004Debris and open burning4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1999Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1999Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1999Debris and open burning2.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20200915-1
15 September 2016Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160915-1
15 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Etowah 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 Murrycross: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Aluminum. 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
Barfield Bauxite MineAluminumPast Producer
Citico MineIronPast ProducerHematite
Leeth Mt. AreaIronPast ProducerHematite

Every working recorded in Etowah County

Storms near this place

2 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Murrycross in 2 storm reports in 2012: 2 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
July 2012Thunderstorm WindMurrycross-Trees were reported down across Croft Ferry Road.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindMurrycross-A power pole was snapped and several powerlines were reported down along Crump Road near Ballplay.

Every storm recorded in Etowah 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
Oak Hill (historical)0.6 miles19
Owens0.8 miles19
Bath Springs1.8 miles18
Hale (historical)2.5 miles19
Wilsonia2.8 miles18
Turkeytown2.8 miles18
Lay Springs3.3 miles19
Tabor3.8 miles20

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 Q122553594The 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 156762. 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.