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Skeggs Crossroads, Alabama

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Millerville-Hollins census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35072. The Survey maps it on the Goodwater quadrangle.

Skeggs Crossroads within Clay County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 23 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

140 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 140 fires within 5 miles of Skeggs Crossroads between 1993 and 2020, burning about 3,359 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 49 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/incendiarism49
Debris and open burning47
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Recreation and ceremony8
Natural8
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1

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
24 September 2019Debris and open burning4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190924-24
19 September 2010Natural2.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2000Debris and open burning1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190910-8
10 September 2006Debris and open burning23 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Skeggs Crossroads: 6 past producers, 2 unknowns, 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Graphite, Mica, Iron, Vanadium. 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
Ceylon Graphite MineGraphite, Vanadium, MicaPast Producer1916
Gantts Number 4 QuarryMarble, DimensionProducer
Miller MineGoldPast ProducerPlacer
USGS MR-60 Alabama No.7 ProspectFluorine-FluoriteOccurrence
Hertzfield MineMicaPast Producer
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
Ceylon GraphiteGraphitePast Producer1865, 1916
Epps - Goodwater AreaGraphitePast Producer1865, 1917
Parkdale MineGraphitePast Producer

Every working recorded in Clay 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
Hollins1.7 miles23
East Mill3.3 miles23
Brownsville3.6 miles23
Roselle5.9 miles23
Cleveland Crossroads6.6 miles12
Shady Grove6.8 miles23
Pinkneyville8.2 miles12
Glades9.3 miles14

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 Q122597367The 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 160619. 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.