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Crossland, Kentucky

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1986. It lies in ZIP code area 42049. The Survey maps it on the Lynn Grove quadrangle. It stands 587 feet above sea level.

Crossland within Calloway County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

19 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Crossland between 2004 and 2017, burning about 81 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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 burning7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Arson/incendiarism2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1
Other causes1
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
7 September 2012Natural1.0 acresKentucky Division of ForestryTAYLOR TRA
31 August 2007Railroad operations and maintenance4.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
16 August 2007Smoking8.0 acresTennessee Division of ForestryALLEN FIRE
23 March 2007Arson/incendiarism20 acresTennessee Division of ForestryMILL CR
23 March 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresKentucky Division of Forestrynot named
21 March 2005Misuse of fire by a minor5.0 acresTennessee Division of Forestrynot named
21 March 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreTennessee Division of Forestrynot named
20 March 2014Debris and open burning1.6 acresTennessee Division of ForestryHUMMER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Calloway County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Crossland: 10 past producers, 4 producers, 1 unknown. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Ball Clay, Silica. 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
Laird No. 1 PitBrick Clay, SilicaProducer1905
Laird Brick Co Mines #1 PitClay, SilicaProducer
Puryear MineSilicaProducer
Cooley No. 10 PitBall ClayPast Producer
Cooley No. 9 PitBall ClayPast Producer
Dixon PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Dixon PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Dixon PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Martin PitBall ClayPast Producer
Clay PitClayPast Producer

Every working recorded in Calloway County

Storms near this place

2 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crossland in 2 storm reports between 2014 and 2025: 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 2025Thunderstorm WindCrossland$5,000A large tree was blown onto a truck on State Line Road just west of Moore Road.
May 2014Flash FloodCrossland-The Calloway County Sheriff Department reported water was over 11 roads in the southern half of the county.

Every storm recorded in Calloway 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
Hazel2.9 miles13
Bakers Crossroads3.8 miles13
Midway4.6 miles13
Halfway (historical)5.2 miles13
Craigtown (historical)5.3 miles13
Steeleville (historical)5.3 miles13
Harris Grove5.4 miles10
Wiswell5.7 miles10

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.

Wikipedia article on CrosslandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14690264The 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 490399. 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.