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Clayborn, Alabama

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Altoona census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35956. It stands on Dry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Altoona quadrangle.

Clayborn within Etowah County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 22 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

95 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 95 fires within 5 miles of Clayborn between 1997 and 2020, burning about 1,387 acres in total. None started naturally. 54 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/incendiarism54
Debris and open burning28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Recreation and ceremony3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
9 September 1998Arson/incendiarism35 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1998Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1997Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2016Debris and open burning15 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160906-7
6 September 1998Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160925-2
23 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160923-4

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Etowah County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Clayborn: 8 past producers, 7 prospects, 6 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Manganese, 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
No 1 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Bynum MineManganesePast Producer1876
Bynum-Mccright DepositManganesePast Producer1917
Collier-Edge DepositManganesePast Producer1942
J.B.BynumManganesePast Producer1924
KirkpatrickManganesePast Producer
Not Known, Walnut Gove AreaManganesePast ProducerResidual
Unnamed ProspectManganeseOccurrence
Walnut Grove AreaManganeseProspect1930
Walnut Grove MineManganesePast Producer

Every working recorded in Etowah 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
Alice1.9 miles23
Redbud2.7 miles22
Hopper3.5 miles22
Aurora3.6 miles19
Walnut Grove3.8 miles22
Phillips (historical)3.8 miles22
Mays3.9 miles19
Harrisville4.1 miles19

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 Q122540334The 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 149041. 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.