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Hinsons Crossroads, Florida

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Caryville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32427. It stands on Yates Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hinsons Crossroads quadrangle.

Hinsons Crossroads within Washington County

Then and now

1949 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 39 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Hinsons Crossroads, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Hinsons Crossroads, surveyed 1949

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

92 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 92 fires within 5 miles of Hinsons Crossroads between 1992 and 2020, burning about 774 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 5 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 burning26
Railroad operations and maintenance21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Equipment and vehicle use9
Natural6
Arson/incendiarism5
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
30 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
18 September 1999Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
26 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined14 acresFlorida Forest ServiceDOUGLAS FERRY ROAD (67)
17 August 2007Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest Service955
28 July 2010Power generation/transmission/distribution3.0 acresFlorida Forest Service67/WARD PLACE-0472
22 July 2006Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service30/OLD MT ZION RD
12 July 2013Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceWILDERNESS ROAD (67)
9 June 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest Service67/GALLOWAY-0668

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Hinsons Crossroads: 4 prospects, 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General, Sand. 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
Anderson Sand Co. - Anderson MineSandProducer
Choctawhatchee Rock - Burns Lake MineLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Morrison Springs Limestone ProspectStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Unnamed Limestone ProspectStone, Crushed/BrokenProspect
Unnamed Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionProspect
Unnamed Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionProspect
Unnamed Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionProspect

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

9 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hinsons Crossroads in 9 storm reports between 2015 and 2024: 8 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
July 2018Thunderstorm WindHinsons Crossroads$10,000A tree was blown down onto a house. Damage cost was estimated.
January 2024Thunderstorm WindHinsons Crossroads$3,000Power lines were blown down at 3465 River Road.
January 2024Thunderstorm WindHinsons Crossroads$3,000Trees were blown down onto power lines at Parrish Steel Road and Azalea Lane.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindHinsons Crossroads$3,000Power lines were blown down in the vicinity of Douglas Ferry Road and Wilderness Road.
January 2024Thunderstorm WindHinsons Crossroads-A tree was blown down onto Shakey Joe Road.
December 2024Thunderstorm WindHinsons Crossroads-A tree was blown down at River Road and Steep Hollow Road.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindHinsons Crossroads-A tree and power line were blown down on Douglas Ferry Road.
March 2022Thunderstorm WindHinsons Crossroads-Trees were blown down at Hinsons Crossroads.
November 2015FloodHinsons Crossroads-Douglas Ferry Road was flooded from the 5893 address to the river.

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Coosada Old Town (historical)3.9 miles15
Whitehead Crossroads4.7 miles13
Five Points5.7 miles13
Live Oak6.3 miles13
New Hope6.5 miles13
Norum6.6 miles13
Millers Ferry6.7 miles13
Caryville7.4 miles13

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 Q122544444The 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 295350. 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.