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Clairmont Springs, Alabama

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Lineville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35160. The Survey maps it on the Clairmont Springs quadrangle.

Clairmont Springs within Clay County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

290 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 290 fires within 5 miles of Clairmont Springs between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,233 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 144 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
Arson/incendiarism144
Missing data/not specified/undetermined44
Debris and open burning40
Railroad operations and maintenance36
Natural12
Recreation and ceremony8
Equipment and vehicle use4
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Other causes1

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
8 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNational Forests in AlabamaTALLADEGA MTN.
24 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNational Forests in Alabamanot named
15 September 1994Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 1997Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 1998Arson/incendiarism40 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 64 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 64 workings within 5 miles of Clairmont Springs: 44 past producers, 10 prospects, 7 occurrences, 3 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Mica, Graphite, Sulfur, Sulfuric Acid. 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
Central Clay County Gibbsite ProspectAluminum, ManganeseOccurrence1977
Enitachopco MineGraphite, Mica, VanadiumPast ProducerSurface
Franklin MineGold, IronPast Producer
UnnamedIronUnknown
Dean Watts Manganese MineManganesePast Producer1949
Watt Manganese DistrictManganeseProspectLATERITE
Watt Manganese OpeningManganeseProspectPyrolusite
Watt Mn DistrictManganesePast ProducerResidual
Caldwell MineSulfur, Sulfuric Acid, CopperPast Producer
L & M Mining Association MineSulfur, Sulfuric Acid, CopperPast Producer

Every working recorded in Clay 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
Erin1.4 miles15
Gunthertown2.0 miles15
Weathers2.0 miles15
Springhill2.8 miles15
Campbells Crossroads3.2 miles15
Campbell Springs3.6 miles12
Bowden Grove4.7 miles12
Pyriton5.2 miles12

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 Q122541531The 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 159410. 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.