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Stewarts Crossroads, Alabama

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Moody census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35128. It stands on Patterson Branch. The Survey maps it on the Cooks Springs quadrangle.

Stewarts Crossroads within St. Clair County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 21 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

136 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 136 fires within 5 miles of Stewarts Crossroads between 1994 and 2020, burning about 3,446 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 38 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 burning52
Arson/incendiarism38
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Recreation and ceremony8
Natural5
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
25 September 2019Railroad operations and maintenance6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190925-11
20 September 1995Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1995Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 1997Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 1997Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 1995Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 August 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionNER-20150827-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Clair County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Stewarts Crossroads: 2 past producers, 2 producers, 2 unknowns, 1 plant. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Leeds Cement PlantStonePlant
Leeds Mine & QuarryClay, Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
U.S. Steel Corp. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Leeds Brown Fe MinesIronPast ProducerResidual
Leeds Brown Iron Ore MinesIronPast ProducerGoethite
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown

Every working recorded in St. Clair 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
Prescott2.0 miles21
Pleasant Grove2.9 miles21
Brompton2.9 miles21
Heritage Park3.3 miles27
Forest Hills3.7 miles27
Woodland Village3.7 miles27
Monte Bello Estates3.9 miles21
Moody3.9 miles21

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 Q122541617The 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 164870. 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.