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Tiller Crossroads, Alabama

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Milltown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36850. It stands on Allen Creek. The Survey maps it on the Dudleyville quadrangle.

Tiller Crossroads within Chambers 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.

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 Tiller Crossroads between 1994 and 2019, burning about 798 acres in total. 3 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
Debris and open burning22
Arson/incendiarism21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking3
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony2
Other causes1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
8 September 1997Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1998Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2016Arson/incendiarism12 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160929-12
29 September 2001Arson/incendiarism15 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2019Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190920-8
3 August 2002Arson/incendiarism12 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 August 2019Natural1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190823-2
30 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionECR-20120730-003

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chambers County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Tiller Crossroads: 3 occurrences, 2 past producers, 2 prospects, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Talc-Soapstone, Mica, Clay. 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
Allen Clay ProspectClayProspect
Buttston Mica MineMicaUnknown
Carleton MineMicaPast Producer
Clem Vines North ProspectTalc-SoapstoneOccurrenceTalc
Harris ProspectTalc-SoapstoneProspect
Morgan PlacerGoldOccurrence1892
Morgan PlacerGoldPast ProducerPlacer
W.D. Mitchell Property No. 2GoldOccurrenceGold

Every working recorded in Chambers 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
Trammel Crossroads2.3 miles10
Bosworth2.4 miles11
Union Hill2.8 miles11
Fordyce2.8 miles10
Shiloh2.9 miles11
Foster Crossroads2.9 miles10
Marcoot4.9 miles13
Penton5.8 miles11

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 Q122592343The 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 157159. 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.