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Corinth, Alabama

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Ashland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36255. It stands on Dinner Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mellow Valley quadrangle. It stands 892 feet above sea level.

Corinth within Clay County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

114 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 114 fires within 5 miles of Corinth between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,636 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
Debris and open burning42
Arson/incendiarism39
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Railroad operations and maintenance10
Recreation and ceremony5
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
8 September 2006Debris and open burning23 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2002Arson/incendiarism25 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1998Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1998Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2002Debris and open burning8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2006Debris and open burning25 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 1998Debris and open burning1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNER-20140829-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 71 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 71 workings within 5 miles of Corinth: 34 prospects, 27 past producers, 10 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Zinc, Arsenic, Copper, Lead, 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
Benjamin ProspectCopper, Gold, Lead, ArsenicProspect
Bradford Fraction ProspectGold, ArsenicOccurrenceGold
Bradford Fraction ProspectCopper, Arsenic, GoldProspect
Bradford Ridge-Weaver MineGold, Arsenic, CopperPast ProducerVein
Cly 4 Clay ProspectClayProspect
Goldberg ProspectArsenic, Gold, Iron, LeadProspect
Grizzel ProspectGold, GarnetOccurrenceGold
Grizzell ProspectArsenic, Gold, LeadProspect
J D Walker ProspectZinc, Lead, Copper, ArsenicProspect
Unnamed ProspectZinc, Copper, LeadProspect

Every working recorded in Clay 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
Cooley Crossroads2.7 miles12
Mellow Valley3.3 miles12
Cragford3.3 miles12
Shiloh4.7 miles12
Gibsonville4.9 miles11
Berwick5.0 miles12
Sikesville5.5 miles12
Abner (historical)6.3 miles12

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.

Wikidata item Q5170613The 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 151050. 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.