Winn Crossroads, Alabama

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Eva census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35087. It lies near Section Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Hulaco quadrangle.

Winn Crossroads within Morgan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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 Hulaco quadrangle1:24000
1949 USGS Hulaco quadrangle1:24000
1952 USGS Hulaco quadrangle1:24000, 2 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
1975 USGS Hulaco quadrangle1:24000
1976 USGS Hulaco quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Guntersville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

38 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Winn Crossroads between 1997 and 2019, burning about 259 acres in total. None started naturally. 8 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	17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Arson/incendiarism	8
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
8 September 2006	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1998	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190926-6
25 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2016	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160924-20
24 September 2010	Debris and open burning	26 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2016	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160923-9
12 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

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
Ryan Crossroads	0.4 miles	20
Hulaco	2.0 miles	20
Center Grove	3.4 miles	20
Apple Grove	4.2 miles	20
Peach Grove (historical)	4.4 miles	20
Center Dale	5.8 miles	18
Florette	7.1 miles	20
Eva	7.6 miles	17

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 Q122550296

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 157272. 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.