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Abanda, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Milltown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36276. It stands on Caty Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wadley South quadrangle. 133 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 646 feet above sea level.

Abanda within Chambers County

Population over time

2 figures

Abanda fell from 192 to 133 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.

YearPeople Change
2010192
2020133-59 (-31%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

91 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 91 fires within 5 miles of Abanda between 1994 and 2020, burning about 829 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 16 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 burning37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Arson/incendiarism16
Recreation and ceremony6
Equipment and vehicle use4
Railroad operations and maintenance4
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
6 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2002Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2016Arson/incendiarism12 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160929-12
26 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionCO RD 237, AL
19 September 2011Debris and open burning1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commission327 CR 861, AL
15 September 2016Arson/incendiarism20 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160915-12
8 August 1999Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionNER-20140830-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chambers County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Abanda: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Chambers County

Storms near this place

3 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Abanda in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2020: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2011Thunderstorm WindAbanda$2,000Trees were blown down.
January 2020Thunderstorm WindAbanda-Several trees uprooted near the intersection of Highway 77 and County Road 237.
April 2008HailAbanda-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Chambers 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
Red Level2.9 miles11
Milltown4.0 miles11
Clackville4.3 miles11
Shiloh5.5 miles11
Bosworth5.6 miles11
Rock Fence6.6 miles11
Union Hill6.8 miles11
Doublehead7.2 miles11

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 AbandaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1261843The 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 112879. 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.