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Clayhill, Alabama

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Dixons Mill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36784. It stands on Talbert Branch. The Survey maps it on the Sweet Water quadrangle. It stands 285 feet above sea level.

Clayhill within Marengo County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

73 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 73 fires within 5 miles of Clayhill between 1994 and 2019, burning about 471 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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/undetermined26
Debris and open burning24
Recreation and ceremony7
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Smoking4
Arson/incendiarism3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural1

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
4 September 1998Smokingunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160928-20
20 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined27 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20150920-006
14 September 1997Debris and open burning1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190912-12
11 September 2002Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 August 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marengo County

Storms near this place

2 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clayhill in 2 storm reports between 2023 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 2024Thunderstorm WindClayhill-Numerous trees were uprooted, resulting in widespread power outages around the Sweet Water area. US 43 near the Marengo/Clarke county line was blocked by trees.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindClayhill-Several trees uprooted and power lines downed south of Dixons Mills on Highway 43.

Every storm recorded in Marengo 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
Ellison (historical)2.3 miles10
Surginer3.5 miles10
Dixons Mills3.5 miles10
Marengo4.4 miles10
Vineland5.0 miles10
Doyle5.4 miles10
Vangale5.7 miles10
Wayne6.7 miles10

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 ClayhillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5129919The 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 156186. 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.

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.