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Tanner Crossroads, Alabama

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Athens census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35671. It stands on Old Schoolhouse Branch. The Survey maps it on the Tanner quadrangle.

Tanner Crossroads within Limestone County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 22 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

44 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Tanner Crossroads between 1994 and 2020, burning about 212 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 burning21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Arson/incendiarism3
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNOR-20140925-003
22 September 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160922-11
19 September 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190911-3
3 August 2011Smoking30 acresAlabama Forestry Commission12764 SOMMERS RD, AL
19 August 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 August 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 August 1999Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Limestone County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Tanner Crossroads: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Phosphorus-Phosphates. 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
Gilbert MinePhosphorus-PhosphatesProducer

Every working recorded in Limestone 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
Tanner0.8 miles22
Country Club Acres1.6 miles22
Murphree Place2.2 miles22
Jones Crossroads2.6 miles15
Batts Heights2.9 miles22
Southside3.0 miles22
Bonnie Doone3.0 miles22
Indian Trace3.2 miles22

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 Q122557249The 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 127665. 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.