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.
Population over time
2 figuresClio 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,399 | |
| 2020 | 1,220 | -179 (-13%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1953 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Clio quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Troy quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
65 since 1994Regional 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/undetermined | 25 |
| Debris and open burning | 20 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | 2.1 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 8 September 2002 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 1.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 20 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | 9.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | SER-20150920-001 |
| 17 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 17 September 1997 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 15 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 1 September 1994 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 2.5 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 August 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | SER-20150805-002 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 65 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bar 16 Clay Prospect | Clay | Prospect | ||
| Davis Mines | Aluminum | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed | Iron | Unknown | ||
| Unnamed | Iron | Unknown | ||
| Unnamed | Iron | Unknown | ||
| Unnamed | Iron | Unknown | ||
| Unnamed | Iron | Unknown | ||
| Unnamed | Iron | Unknown | ||
| Unnamed | Iron | Unknown | ||
| Unnamed | Iron | Unknown |
Storms near this place
10 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clio | 1 hurt, $10,000 | Poles 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 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clio | $45,000 | Wind 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 1997 | Hail | Clio | $4,000 | Three-quarter inch hail was reported just east of Clio, in the southern part of the county. |
| August 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Clio | $3,000 | Several trees were blown down and a few large limbs were snapped off near Tyler Crossroads. |
| September 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Clio | $2,000 | A 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 2005 | Hail | Clio | $1,000 | Nickel size hail was reported near Clio. |
| November 2019 | Tornado (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 2004 | Hail | Clio | - | Quarter size hail fell just east of Clio. |
| April 2004 | Hail | Clio | - | Quarter size hail was reported in extreme southwestern Barbour County near the Doster community. |
| January 1999 | Hail | Clio | - | Dime size hail reported near the city of Clio. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Baxters | 3.7 miles | 7 | |
| Elamville | 3.7 miles | 8 | |
| Coal Springs (historical) | 4.3 miles | 8 | |
| Tyler Crossroads | 4.5 miles | 8 | |
| Akinsville | 5.0 miles | 8 | |
| Teals Crossroads | 5.2 miles | 8 | |
| Doster | 5.4 miles | 8 | |
| Louisville | 5.9 miles | 7 |
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 Clio | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q79704 | The 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.




