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Clearview, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Rose Hill-Gantt census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36028. It stands on Wolf Creek. The Survey maps it on the Gantt quadrangle.

Clearview within Covington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

77 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 77 fires within 5 miles of Clearview between 1994 and 2020, burning about 439 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 14 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
Debris and open burning38
Arson/incendiarism14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Recreation and ceremony9
Equipment and vehicle use3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Natural1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
29 September 1994Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190923-11
23 September 1999Debris and open burning1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 1999Arson/incendiarism3.2 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
25 August 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 August 1996Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
12 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Covington County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 23 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of Clearview: 13 unknowns, 10 occurrences. 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
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown

Every working recorded in Covington County

Storms near this place

6 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clearview in 6 storm reports between 2000 and 2024: 5 thunderstorm wind, 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
January 2024Thunderstorm WindClearview-Major structural damage to a home with several trees and power lines down nearby. Several trees and powerlines snapped along Dunns Bridge Rd.
January 2023Thunderstorm WindClearview-High winds downed trees around Gantt Lake.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindClearview-High winds downed numerous trees and power lines.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindClearview-High winds downed trees near Rawls School Road at Boston Road.
March 2020Thunderstorm WindClearview-High winds downed trees.
August 2000HailClearview-Dime size hail was reported in the Clearview area.

Every storm recorded in Covington 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
Coldwater1.7 miles8
Dunns1.7 miles8
Rawls1.8 miles8
Boston2.2 miles8
Valley of Shiloh2.6 miles8
Gantt3.6 miles8
Straughn4.6 miles8
Antioch5.6 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156189. 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.