Roanoke Junction, Alabama

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Auburn-Opelika census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36801. The Survey maps it on the Opelika East quadrangle.

Roanoke Junction within Lee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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.

1907 USGS Opelika quadrangle1:125000
1909 USGS Opelika quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1955 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Opelika East quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1981 USGS Opelika quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

29 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Roanoke Junction between 1994 and 2016, burning about 454 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 burning	10
Recreation and ceremony	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Arson/incendiarism	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	3

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
7 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	35 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2002	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 2011	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	3590 CR 38, AL
8 August 2000	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
31 August 1998	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
12 August 1995	Recreation and ceremony	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
4 July 2006	Misuse of fire by a minor	34 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lee 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 Roanoke Junction: 2 occurrences, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Aluminum, Feldspar, Mica, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Hilyer-Knight Prospect	Iron	Occurrence
North Opelika Gibbsite Prospect	Aluminum	Occurrence	1977
T H Clower Prospect	Feldspar, Mica	Unknown

Every working recorded in Lee 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
Oak Dale	0.8 miles	15
Lake Forest Estates	0.9 miles	14
North Hills	0.9 miles	14
Oak Bowery Heights	1.1 miles	14
Rocky Brook	1.2 miles	14
India Lakes	1.4 miles	14
Gwen Mill	1.5 miles	14
West Ridge	1.7 miles	15

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 Q122546774

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 125681. 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.