Clark, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Aliceville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35442. The Survey maps it on the Dancy quadrangle.

Clark within Pickens County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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.

1953 USGS West Point quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS West Point quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS West Point quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1974 USGS Dancy quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS West Point quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

18 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Clark between 1996 and 2016, burning about 309 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Arson/incendiarism	4
Debris and open burning	4
Recreation and ceremony	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Natural	1
Smoking	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
16 September 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
26 August 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
24 August 2007	Natural	3.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
4 July 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	NWR-20140704-002
3 April 1996	Smoking	25 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
12 April 2014	Recreation and ceremony	11 acres	Mississippi Forestry Commission	10320140412003
24 March 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	NWR-20140324-002
2 March 2008	Debris and open burning	25 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pickens 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 Clark: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	Gulf States Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Pickens 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
Dancy	0.4 miles	11
Cochrane	4.1 miles	11
Vienna	5.0 miles	12
Memphis	8.6 miles	11
Bridgeville	9.9 miles	12
Aliceville	10.7 miles	11
McMullen	11.0 miles	11
Garden	11.3 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 135493. 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.