Jones Crossroads, Georgia

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1981. It lies in ZIP code area 31833. It stands on Ingram Creek. The Survey maps it on the Whitesville quadrangle.

Jones Crossroads within Troup County

On record in Jones Crossroads

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

R.M. Jones General Storelisted 2009 · 0.0 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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.

1907 USGS Opelika quadrangle1:125000
1909 USGS Opelika quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1955 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Whitesville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1981 USGS Opelika quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

136 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 136 fires within 5 miles of Jones Crossroads between 1992 and 2020, burning about 760 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 17 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	74
Arson/incendiarism	17
Smoking	12
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Natural	9
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Recreation and ceremony	3

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 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2013-HARRIS-002
13 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	1.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020HARRIS002
11 September 2007	Natural	59 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 August 2017	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2018-TROUP-001
22 August 1996	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
15 August 2002	Natural	3.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-TROUP-003
12 August 1999	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Troup County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Jones Crossroads: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mica, Beryllium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Hogg Mine	Mica, Beryllium	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Troup 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
Colonial Heights	0.8 miles	15
Pioneer Village	2.2 miles	15
Wood Valley	3.0 miles	15
Baughs Crossroads	3.3 miles	15
Andersons Corner	4.4 miles	11
Cottons Crossroads	4.4 miles	15
Smiths Mill	4.5 miles	11
Gray Hill	4.6 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 326349. 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.