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Clayhatchee, Alabama

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Daleville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36322. It stands on Brackin Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Clayhatchee quadrangle. 466 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 194 feet above sea level.

Clayhatchee within Dale County

Population over time

2 figures

Clayhatchee fell from 589 to 466 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010589
2020466-123 (-21%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

37 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Clayhatchee between 1994 and 2017, burning about 262 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Debris and open burning13
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
18 September 1997Smoking1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 July 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
10 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionSER-20120710-001
10 July 2000Debris and open burning8.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 May 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
21 May 2007Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 April 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionSER-20130424-001
22 April 1999Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dale County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Clayhatchee: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Silica, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica, 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
Clayhatchee QuarrySilica, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerQuartz
Clayhatchee R. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unnamed QuarrySilicaProducerQuartz

Every working recorded in Dale County

Storms near this place

4 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clayhatchee in 4 storm reports between 1997 and 2022: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
October 1997Tornado (F1)Clayhatchee$150,000A small F1 tornado destroyed a barn on Alabama Highway 92. A neighboring house sustained minor damage. Several trees were uprooted.
March 2022Thunderstorm WindClayhatchee-A tree was blown down near Highway 167.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindClayhatchee-A tree was blown down in the Clayhatchee area. This was reported on the Clayhatchee Volunteer Fire Dept Facebook page.
January 2017Thunderstorm WindClayhatchee-Trees were blown down in the Clayhatchee area.

Every storm recorded in Dale 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
Daleville5.2 miles13
Level Plains5.3 miles12
Gerald6.3 miles12
Five Points6.9 miles13
Kelly7.1 miles13
Munson Heights7.3 miles13
Holiday Village7.6 miles12
Bowden Terrace7.8 miles13

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 ClayhatcheeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q65447The 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 116204. 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.