Stephenson Crossing, Alabama

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Oakman census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35579. It lies near Porter Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Oakman quadrangle.

Stephenson Crossing within Walker County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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.

1893 USGS Jasper quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1949 USGS Oakman quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1951 USGS Oakman quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1953 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Jasper quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

204 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 204 fires within 5 miles of Stephenson Crossing between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,658 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 98 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	98
Debris and open burning	59
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	29
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Recreation and ceremony	4
Natural	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Other causes	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
6 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160906-9
6 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	NWR-20140925-002
21 September 2010	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Walker 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
Marietta	1.2 miles	17
Hayes Crossing	1.2 miles	17
Key Hill	1.4 miles	17
Oakman	1.8 miles	17
Enoe	2.0 miles	17
Patton	2.1 miles	17
Dixie Springs	2.6 miles	17
Coal Valley	2.9 miles	17

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 Q122553317

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 157112. 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.