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Claysville, Alabama

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1885 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Grant census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35976. It lies near Martin Hill. The Survey maps it on the Mount Carmel quadrangle. It stands 623 feet above sea level.

Claysville within Marshall County

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 24 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

54 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Claysville between 1994 and 2018, burning about 858 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 15 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/incendiarism15
Debris and open burning13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Recreation and ceremony6
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking2
Natural1
Other causes1

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
7 September 2006Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2006Arson/incendiarism20 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2006Arson/incendiarism10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2015Other causes2.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNOR-20150922-002
28 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 August 2006Arson/incendiarism35 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 August 2007Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marshall 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 Claysville: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Mal 1b Clay ProspectClayProspect

Every working recorded in Marshall County

Storms near this place

9 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Claysville in 9 storm reports between 2003 and 2017: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 hail. 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 2010Thunderstorm WindClaysville$20,000Trees were blown down onto a RV camper and lightly damaged a Chalet.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindClaysville$1,000A large tree was knocked down. Time estimated based on radar.
March 2008Thunderstorm WindClaysville$500Thunderstorm winds knocked down a tree at Lake Guntersville State Park.
April 2017HailClaysville-Nickel sized hail was reported near Guntersville.
April 2017Thunderstorm WindClaysville-Thunderstorm winds knocked a tree down at the Guntersville State Park campground.
December 2015Flash FloodClaysville-Portions of Highway 227 are impassable due to a mudslide.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindClaysville-Several trees were blown down on Preston Island. 50 mph winds were recorded in Guntersville.
March 2003Thunderstorm WindClaysville-Large tree and several limbs blown down.
June 2003Flash FloodClaysville-several inches of water over highway 431.

Every storm recorded in Marshall 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
North (historical)0.3 miles24
Playground Shores0.4 miles24
Pinedale Shores0.9 miles24
Buck Island Shores1.1 miles24
Henryville1.3 miles24
Johnson (historical)1.7 miles24
Holiday Shores3.6 miles24
Guntersville3.6 miles22

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 ClaysvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q19461024The 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 156187. 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.