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Turner Crossroads, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1981. It lies in ZIP code area 36351. It stands on Roberts Branch. The Survey maps it on the Goodman quadrangle.

Turner Crossroads within Coffee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

52 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Turner Crossroads between 1996 and 2019, burning about 317 acres in total. 1 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 burning16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Equipment and vehicle use8
Recreation and ceremony5
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Natural1

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
19 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use12 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190919-25
19 September 2019Arson/incendiarism9.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190919-28
13 September 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionCO RD 43, AL
21 August 2000Naturalunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
9 July 2006Smokingunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 July 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionSER-20140703-001
15 July 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
1 June 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coffee County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 24 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 24 workings within 5 miles of Turner Crossroads: 14 unknowns, 8 occurrences, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Gold. 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
Chinca-Pine MineGoldPast Producer
Eley MineGoldPast Producer
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown

Every working recorded in Coffee County

Storms near this place

9 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Turner Crossroads in 9 storm reports between 2011 and 2024: 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 2013FloodTurner Crossroads$60,000Coffee county sustained around $50K of damage due to flooding of some county roads and an additional $10K of damage due to flooding of some roads in New Brockton.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindTurner Crossroads$5,000At the 3500 block of County Road 617, a large outbuilding had its garage door blown in and damaged. A landscape tree was blown over. A vinyl white picket fence had two sections blown out, and a trampoline was damaged.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindTurner Crossroads$3,000Trees were blown down along Highway 134. The monetary damage figure provided is a rough estimate.
April 2021Thunderstorm WindTurner Crossroads$1,000A line was blown down onto County Road 606.
November 2018Thunderstorm WindTurner Crossroads$1,000Trees and limbs were blown down onto a power line, resulting in a power outage along County Road 603.
January 2024Flash FloodTurner Crossroads-A couple of roads around New Brockton had flooding.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindTurner Crossroads-A tree was blown down near New Home Church.
April 2021Thunderstorm WindTurner Crossroads-A power line was blown down at 2087 County Road 617.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindTurner Crossroads-A tree was blown down on County Road 606.

Every storm recorded in Coffee 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
Damascus1.7 miles8
Goodman2.5 miles11
Fairfield Estates4.9 miles11
Pine Forest5.0 miles11
Griffin Heights5.5 miles12
New Brockton5.6 miles11
Battens Crossroads5.7 miles11
Willow Bend5.8 miles12

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 Q122589712The 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 157179. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.