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Saints Crossroads, Alabama

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Russellville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35654. It stands on Whitlock Branch. The Survey maps it on the Old Bethel quadrangle.

Saints Crossroads within Franklin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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

111 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 111 fires within 5 miles of Saints Crossroads between 1996 and 2019, burning about 1,201 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 33 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/incendiarism33
Debris and open burning32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined28
Equipment and vehicle use16
Natural1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
6 September 2010Arson/incendiarism23 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Saints Crossroads: 18 unknowns, 2 occurrences, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
Pearl R Peters Iron Mine No 2IronPast Producer
Sloss Number 11IronUnknown
Sloss Number 7IronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown

Every working recorded in Franklin 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
Bethsaida1.7 miles19
Tharptown2.8 miles20
Mountain Star3.5 miles20
Newburg4.8 miles14
Good Springs5.7 miles20
Waco5.8 miles14
Pleasant Ridge6.1 miles20
Hester Heights6.4 miles20

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 Q122572891The 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 126227. 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.