McClure, Alabama

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1927 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Eutaw census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35462. It stands on Minter Creek. The Survey maps it on the Warrior Dam quadrangle.

McClure within Greene County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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.

1927 USGS Eutaw quadrangle1:48000
1931 USGS Eutaw quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1953 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Warrior Dam quadrangle1:24000
1986 USGS Demopolis quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS Demopolis quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

70 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of McClure between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,006 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 7 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 burning	20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Arson/incendiarism	7
Smoking	5
Natural	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2

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
6 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1995	Smoking	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1997	Smoking	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2015	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	NWR-20150925-003
23 September 2006	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 2000	Natural	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	20200918-2
13 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	CR 43, AL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greene 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
Gosa	1.0 miles	14
Eutaw	2.4 miles	15
Walden Quarters	6.9 miles	11
Allison	8.2 miles	15
Clinton	9.2 miles	14
Knoxville	10.4 miles	14
Union	10.5 miles	14
Lizzieville	10.7 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 156678. 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.