Turney Crossroads, Alabama

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Somerville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35640. It stands on Gum Spring Creek. The Survey maps it on the Somerville quadrangle.

Turney Crossroads within Morgan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 20 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.

1888 USGS Cullman quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Cullman quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1936 USGS Somerville quadrangle1:24000
1951 USGS Somerville quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1984 USGS Guntersville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

83 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 83 fires within 5 miles of Turney Crossroads between 1993 and 2019, burning about 713 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 9 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 burning	34
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Arson/incendiarism	9
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Recreation and ceremony	7
Smoking	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Natural	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	20 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
23 August 2011	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	260 WATER TOWER ROAD, AL
19 August 2000	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
17 August 2000	Natural	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 July 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	NOR-20120706-001
25 July 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20180725-1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morgan 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
Pence	1.3 miles	20
Stringer	1.6 miles	20
Gum Spring	2.0 miles	20
Somerville	2.0 miles	20
Six Mile	2.1 miles	20
Union	2.5 miles	20
Henderson	3.7 miles	20
Lynntown	4.3 miles	20

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 Q122546327

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 157180. 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.