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Clio, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Clio census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36017. The Survey maps it on the Clio quadrangle. 1,220 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 525 feet above sea level.

Clio within Barbour County

Population over time

2 figures

Clio fell from 1,399 to 1,220 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20101,399
20201,220-179 (-13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

65 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Clio between 1994 and 2020, burning about 598 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Debris and open burning20
Equipment and vehicle use7
Arson/incendiarism5
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Natural1

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 1997Debris and open burning2.1 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2002Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2015Debris and open burning9.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSER-20150920-001
17 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 1994Railroad operations and maintenance2.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionSER-20150805-002

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Barbour County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 65 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 65 workings within 5 miles of Clio: 25 unknowns, 23 past producers, 14 prospects, 3 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Aluminum, Clay. 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
Bar 16 Clay ProspectClayProspect
Davis MinesAluminumPast Producer
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown

Every working recorded in Barbour County

Storms near this place

10 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clio in 10 storm reports between 1995 and 2019: 5 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado. The reports record 1 injury. 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
April 1997Thunderstorm WindClio1 hurt, $10,000Poles were snapped, power lines were downed, and trees were snapped and uprooted. Widespread damage was also reported throughout the county. There was one injury due to a tree falling on a car. Clio is in the southwest part of the county.
December 1995Thunderstorm WindClio$45,000Wind damage was reported in Clio to the roofs of five houses along with damage to several peanut trailers. One house was reportedly blown down.
July 1997HailClio$4,000Three-quarter inch hail was reported just east of Clio, in the southern part of the county.
August 2005Thunderstorm WindClio$3,000Several trees were blown down and a few large limbs were snapped off near Tyler Crossroads.
September 2004Tornado (F0)Clio$2,000A brief weak tornado was reported across the extreme southwest portion of Barbour County.Several trees were knocked down. This weak tornado was associated with an outer rain bandof the tropical system Ivan. Approximate brief touchdown location 31.71N/85.68W.
April 2005HailClio$1,000Nickel size hail was reported near Clio.
November 2019Tornado (EF0)Clio-National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed damage in southwest Barbour County and determined that it was consistent with an EF0 tornado, with maximum sustained winds near 60 mph.||The tornado touched down a few miles northwest of the town of Clio. Doppler RADAR showed a tornado debris signature (TDS) associated with an area of rotation as the cell moved eastward towards Highway 51. Minor tree damage was noted on Alabama Highway 10 as well as on Highway 51. Given radar evidence, a brief EF0 track was assigned to an area on the northwest side of Clio. Tornado intensity was estimated using velocity strength and TDS height.
April 2004HailClio-Quarter size hail fell just east of Clio.
April 2004HailClio-Quarter size hail was reported in extreme southwestern Barbour County near the Doster community.
January 1999HailClio-Dime size hail reported near the city of Clio.

Every storm recorded in Barbour 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
Baxters3.7 miles7
Elamville3.7 miles8
Coal Springs (historical)4.3 miles8
Tyler Crossroads4.5 miles8
Akinsville5.0 miles8
Teals Crossroads5.2 miles8
Doster5.4 miles8
Louisville5.9 miles7

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.

Wikipedia article on ClioAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q79704The 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 157921. 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.