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Petes Crossroads, Alabama

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Robbins Crossroads census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35062. The Survey maps it on the Sipsey quadrangle.

Petes Crossroads within Jefferson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

245 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 245 fires within 5 miles of Petes Crossroads between 1994 and 2018, burning about 3,494 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 109 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/incendiarism109
Debris and open burning91
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Recreation and ceremony11
Other causes3
Natural2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Fireworks1

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 1997Arson/incendiarism20 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenance15 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1998Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2016Debris and open burning4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160928-22
26 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2010Other causes2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2008Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionBRYAN CHURCH RD-SUMITON, AL
19 September 2000Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson 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
Bagley0.3 miles21
Bagley Meadows0.5 miles23
Robbins Crossroads1.2 miles28
Crestview Estates1.6 miles24
Briarcliff Estates1.9 miles24
Mill Creek Estates1.9 miles24
West Sayre2.6 miles28
Brents Cross Roads2.8 miles28

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 Q122543889The 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 124650. 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.