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Clear Creek Estates, Alabama

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Talladega census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35014. It lies near Allen Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Laniers quadrangle.

Clear Creek Estates within Talladega County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 21 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

630 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 630 fires within 5 miles of Clear Creek Estates between 1994 and 2020, burning about 11,062 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 252 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/incendiarism252
Debris and open burning236
Missing data/not specified/undetermined62
Recreation and ceremony51
Equipment and vehicle use8
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Natural5
Smoking4

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 2002Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2005Arson/incendiarism23 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1997Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1999Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1998Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined85 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190930-10

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Talladega County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Clear Creek Estates: 6 unknowns, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
Cook BedsIronPast ProducerResidual
J.M. PattersonIronPast ProducerResidual
Norman MountainIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown

Every working recorded in Talladega 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
Willingham Estates0.4 miles21
Alpine Bay0.6 miles21
Cedar Cove Estates1.6 miles21
Briarfield1.8 miles21
Country Club Estates1.8 miles21
Saint Ives2.1 miles21
Feddisburg2.6 miles21
Hepzibah2.7 miles21

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 Q122594643The 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 144768. 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.