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Clay City, Alabama

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Fairhope census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36532. It stands on Polecat Creek. The Survey maps it on the Magnolia Springs quadrangle. It stands 16 feet above sea level.

Clay City within Baldwin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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

65 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Clay City between 1994 and 2018, burning about 473 acres in total. None started naturally. 14 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 burning40
Arson/incendiarism14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
28 September 2000Debris and open burning20 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20150925-002
16 September 1999Debris and open burning20 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20180807-3
18 August 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
2 July 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission13974 SHERWOOD HIGHLAND RD, AL
11 July 2011Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionHANAK RD, AL
4 June 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.8 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionHALEY LANE, AL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Baldwin County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Clay City: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Brick Clay, Clay, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Clay City Clay PitsBrick Clay, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerKaolinite, Montmorillonite, Quartz
Unnamed QuarryClay, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerClay, Quartz
Fairhope MineClayPast Producer
Marlow QuarrySand and Gravel, Construction, ClayProducerUnconsolidated Sediments

Every working recorded in Baldwin County

Storms near this place

1 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clay City in 1 storm report in 2019: 1 heavy rain. 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 2019Heavy RainClay City-Total rainfall of 6.30 inches.

Every storm recorded in Baldwin 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
Marlow1.8 miles18
River Park2.4 miles18
Turkey Branch4.7 miles18
Silverhill5.0 miles18
Houstonville5.1 miles21
Yupon5.3 miles18
Bayside5.4 miles18
Summerdale5.7 miles17

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 Clay CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22058418The 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 116199. 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.