Pooles Crossroad, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Wadley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36274. It stands on Red Caty Creek. The Survey maps it on the Milltown quadrangle.

Pooles Crossroad within Randolph County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

1899 USGS Wedowee quadrangle1:125000
1902 USGS Wedowee quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1953 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1969 USGS Milltown quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1978 USGS La Grange quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

137 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 137 fires within 5 miles of Pooles Crossroad between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,188 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 24 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 burning	61
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	33
Arson/incendiarism	24
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Recreation and ceremony	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Natural	2
Smoking	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2002	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	CO RD 237, AL
20 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	NER-20150920-003
20 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2011	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	327 CR 861, AL
17 September 2003	Debris and open burning	12 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
High Pine	0.9 miles	11
Dickert	1.3 miles	11
Peavy	1.9 miles	11
Blake	2.2 miles	11
Mount Zion	2.5 miles	11
Concord	2.7 miles	12
Mount Olive	2.9 miles	11
Broughton	4.7 miles	11

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 Q122569948

The 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 156916. 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.