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Cleburne, Alabama

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1900 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Heflin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36264. It stands on Rocky Branch. The Survey maps it on the Choccolocco quadrangle.

Cleburne within Cleburne County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 19 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.

Photographs

1 photograph,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Cleburne County Courthouse, U.S. Route 78, Edwardsville, Cleburne County, AL
Cleburne County Courthouse, U.S. Route 78, Edwardsville, Cleburne County, AL
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

203 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 203 fires within 5 miles of Cleburne between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,282 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 87 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/incendiarism87
Debris and open burning56
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Railroad operations and maintenance13
Equipment and vehicle use11
Natural10
Recreation and ceremony5
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
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
5 September 1995Debris and open burning10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2019Naturalunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190930-16
28 September 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreNational Forests in AlabamaTRAILHEAD
28 September 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreNational Forests in Alabamanot named
26 September 1999Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160915-13

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cleburne County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Cleburne: 8 past producers, 7 unknowns, 3 producers, 1 plant. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Mica, Arsenic. 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
C H Mitchell MineArsenic, LeadPast Producer
Henderson DepositManganesePast Producer1953
Heflin MillMicaPlant
Schefner No. 2 MineMicaPast Producer
Austin PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Bennett PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Cobb PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Hewitt Limonite BankIronPast ProducerResidual
Iron City MinesIronPast ProducerGoethite, Magnetite
Pentegrass Or Dunn BedsIronPast ProducerResidual

Every working recorded in Cleburne County

Storms near this place

1 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cleburne in 1 storm report in 1995: 1 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 1995Thunderstorm WindCleburne$2,000Numerous reports of trees blown down in Cleburne.

Every storm recorded in Cleburne 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
Heflin2.2 miles17
Belltown3.3 miles17
Five Points5.2 miles17
Gold Hill6.9 miles17
Chulafinnee7.2 miles17
Edwardsville7.6 miles17
Arbacoochee (historical)7.8 miles17
Abel8.1 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 159414. 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.