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Saint Clair Forest, Alabama

21 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Moody census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35004. The Survey maps it on the Cooks Springs quadrangle.

Saint Clair Forest within St. Clair County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 21 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

129 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 129 fires within 5 miles of Saint Clair Forest between 1994 and 2019, burning about 1,549 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 60 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
Arson/incendiarism60
Debris and open burning42
Recreation and ceremony5
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Natural5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Smoking3
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 1998Debris and open burning5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1998Arson/incendiarism10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2016Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160927-9
25 September 2019Railroad operations and maintenance6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190925-11
21 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1995Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in St. Clair County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Saint Clair Forest: 3 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown

Every working recorded in St. Clair 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
Spring Valley Estates0.7 miles21
Valleyhaven0.8 miles21
Twin Lake Estates0.9 miles21
Acmar1.0 miles21
Parsons1.5 miles27
Woody Acres1.5 miles19
Monte Bello Estates1.6 miles21
Moody1.7 miles21

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 Q122598584The 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 165188. 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.