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Clear Springs, Alabama

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Altoona census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35972. It lies near Bald Hill. The Survey maps it on the Hyatt Gap quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Clear Springs within Etowah 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

70 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Clear Springs (historical) between 1994 and 2020, burning about 804 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 28 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/incendiarism28
Debris and open burning27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 1995Debris and open burning10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1998Natural8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1995Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1998Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2016Debris and open burning35 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160928-30
22 September 2019Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190922-10
20 September 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1998Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Etowah County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Clear Springs (historical): 6 past producers, 4 prospects, 3 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Manganese, Nickel, Cobalt. 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
Greasy CoveManganese, Nickel, CobaltOccurrence
Sewell DepositManganesePast Producer1949
Tumlin Gap Manganese ProspectManganeseOccurrence
Brothers Mill Gap/Moodys GapIronPast Producer
Garigues GapIronPast Producer
Greasy Cove MinesIronPast Producer
Greasy Cove MinesIronProspectBEDDED
Iron Prospect 4IronProspect
Iron Prospect 5IronProspect
Schoolhouse Gap Area of Greasy CoveIronPast ProducerHematite

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
Bethlehem0.1 miles21
Nash (historical)0.5 miles21
Gallant1.7 miles22
Nix (historical)2.3 miles21
Boxtel2.6 miles22
Schuler (historical)2.8 miles22
Moodys Chapel3.1 miles21
Shahan (historical)4.2 miles22

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 165033. 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.