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Owens Cross Roads, Alabama

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the New Hope census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35763. It stands on Glover Cove Creek. The Survey maps it on the New Hope quadrangle. 2,594 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 581 feet above sea level.

Owens Cross Roads within Madison County

Population over time

2 figures

Owens Cross Roads grew from 1,521 to 2,594 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
20101,521
20202,594+1,073 (+71%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 22 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

35 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Owens Cross Roads between 1994 and 2016, burning about 285 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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 burning21
Arson/incendiarism4
Recreation and ceremony4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use2

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 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2003Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.2 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNOR-20130928-002
2 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 1998Debris and open burning30 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 1998Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison 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
Hampton Cove1.8 miles22
Lowe (historical)2.3 miles22
Elon3.2 miles22
Berkley3.9 miles22
Cherrytree4.0 miles22
Chimney Springs4.5 miles23
Fox Run4.5 miles23
Burrows4.6 miles23

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 Owens Cross RoadsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q65700The 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 155184. 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.