Smith Crossroads, Alabama

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Camp Hill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36850. It stands on North Branch Blue Creek. The Survey maps it on the Thornton quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Smith Crossroads within Tallapoosa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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.

1906 USGS Dadeville quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Thornton quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Opelika quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

66 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 66 fires within 5 miles of Smith Crossroads (historical) between 1994 and 2019, burning about 734 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 21 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/incendiarism	21
Debris and open burning	17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Recreation and ceremony	6
Smoking	3
Natural	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
8 September 1998	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2008	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	HWY 50, AL
4 September 1995	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2011	Debris and open burning	12 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	CO RD 89, AL
17 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190917-26
15 September 2010	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tallapoosa 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
Pinnell	2.1 miles	11
Mary	2.5 miles	11
Spinks	3.3 miles	12
Pine Grove	3.8 miles	11
Thornton	4.9 miles	10
Agricola	5.0 miles	11
Camp Hill	5.2 miles	11
Simmons Crossroads	5.2 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 137530. 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.