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Pea Ridge Crossroads, Alabama

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Henagar census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35978. The Survey maps it on the Ider quadrangle.

Pea Ridge Crossroads within DeKalb County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 21 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

151 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 151 fires within 5 miles of Pea Ridge Crossroads between 1995 and 2019, burning about 956 acres in total. None started naturally. 57 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/incendiarism57
Debris and open burning52
Missing data/not specified/undetermined33
Equipment and vehicle use3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Recreation and ceremony2
Other causes1

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 1997Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1999Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160925-17
24 September 2016Debris and open burning4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160924-6
21 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20180921-3
19 September 2019Debris and open burning4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190919-16
17 September 2019Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190917-13

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in DeKalb 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 Pea Ridge Crossroads: 2 occurrences, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Aluminum, Water, Free. 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
Consolidated #2Aluminum, Water, FreePast ProducerSurface
Clyde Hulgen Iron PropertyIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence

Every working recorded in DeKalb 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
Biddle Crossroads1.8 miles21
Snake Creek (historical)2.6 miles22
New Home2.6 miles22
Henagar2.8 miles20
Townsend Crossroads2.8 miles21
Keith3.0 miles21
Mays Gulf (historical)3.0 miles22
Elliott Crossroads3.4 miles22

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 Q122555270The 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 150452. 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.