Clifty, Alabama

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 2000. It stands in the Jones Chapel census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35179. It lies near Hog Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Massey quadrangle.

Clifty within Cullman County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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.

1935 USGS Danville quadrangle1:48000
1935 USGS Danville quadrangle1:62500
1936 USGS Mc Kendry quadrangle1:24000
1938 USGS Danville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1960 USGS Massey quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Haleyville quadrangle1:100000
2000 USGS Massey quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

83 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 83 fires within 5 miles of Clifty between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,062 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 39 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/incendiarism	39
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20
Debris and open burning	16
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	2
Natural	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
7 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	National Forests in Alabama	MORELAND-A
7 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	National Forests in Alabama	MORELAND-B
7 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	National Forests in Alabama	MORELAND-F
7 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	National Forests in Alabama	MORELAND-C
7 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	National Forests in Alabama	MORELAND-D
6 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	National Forests in Alabama	MILL CREEK 2
6 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	National Forests in Alabama	MILL CREEK 3
6 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	National Forests in Alabama	MILL CREEK 1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cullman 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Corinth	0.4 miles	18
Battleground	4.1 miles	20
Dripping Springs	5.4 miles	11
Central	6.2 miles	11
Jones Chapel	6.2 miles	11
West Point	7.4 miles	17
Centerville	7.8 miles	20
Chances Crossroad	8.7 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 161704. 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.