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McClure Town, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Troy census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36081. It stands on Morgans Branch. The Survey maps it on the Troy quadrangle.

McClure Town within Pike County

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

48 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of McClure Town between 1994 and 2020, burning about 209 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 6 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 burning14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use7
Arson/incendiarism6
Recreation and ceremony5
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking1
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
21 July 2000Naturalunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 July 2003Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 June 2007Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
26 June 1995Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 June 2008Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission4430 NEEDMORE ROAD, AL
28 May 2019Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190528-1
22 May 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission1388 CO RD 7708, AL
17 May 2000Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of McClure Town: 5 unknowns, 2 occurrences, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, 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
Pik 4 Clay ProspectClayProspect
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
Unnamed DepositIronOccurrence
Unnamed DepositIronOccurrence

Every working recorded in Pike 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
Corcoran1.1 miles8
Pleasant Hill1.3 miles8
Trojan Terrace1.5 miles8
Northdale1.9 miles8
Oaks Heights1.9 miles8
Westview2.1 miles8
Green Oaks2.1 miles8
Heritage Ridge2.1 miles8

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 Q122596025The 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 122479. 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.