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Addison, Alabama

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 2000. It stands in the Addison census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35540. The Survey maps it on the Addison quadrangle. 659 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 764 feet above sea level.

Addison within Winston County

Population over time

2 figures

Addison fell from 758 to 659 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
2010758
2020659-99 (-13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

84 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of Addison between 1992 and 2019, burning about 2,729 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 58 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/incendiarism58
Debris and open burning11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
4 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2000Natural15 acresNational Forests in AlabamaUPSHAW
20 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190920-18
19 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2010Debris and open burning2.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2010Power generation/transmission/distribution65 acresNational Forests in AlabamaTHREE DAY
25 August 2006Arson/incendiarism13 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Winston County

Storms near this place

27 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Addison in 27 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 13 hail, 10 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 1 heavy rain. 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
May 1998Thunderstorm WindAddison$50,000Trees fell on three cars destroying one, and a tree fell on a mobile home cutting it in half, in the Helicon community.
September 1996Tornado (F1)Addison$45,000no account filed
September 1996Tornado (F0)Addison$20,000no account filed
January 1997HailAddison$10,000no account filed
January 1997Thunderstorm WindAddison$4,000no account filed
August 1995Thunderstorm WindAddison$3,000Several trees were reported down in Addison with one blocking a road.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindAddison$2,500Several trees were blown down on CR-41, north of Addison, and subsequently damaged a fence.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindAddison$2,000Power lines were blown down in Addison.
February 2001Thunderstorm WindAddison$2,000A few trees were blown down in the northeast part of Winston County near Addison.
May 1998HailAddison$2,000Hail the size of quarters was reported in Addison.
October 1997HailAddison$2,000no account filed
August 2023Thunderstorm WindAddison-Numerous trees were uprooted in the Addison and Arley areas.
March 2020Thunderstorm WindAddison-Several trees uprooted along Old Highway 278.
March 2020Thunderstorm WindAddison-Several trees uprooted and power lines downed along Sardis Airport Road.
October 2014HailAddison-Hail up to the size of quarters reported in the city of Addison.
January 2013Tornado (EF1)Addison-An EF1 tornado touched down just north of Addison along County Road 41, just north of Hunter Rd with winds of 70-80mph snapping many softwood trees. The tornado tracked east northeast and destroyed a small airplane hangar at the Addison Municipal Airport. As it tracked parallel to County Road 41, it continued to down trees with winds of 90mph. Just passed County Road 130, the tornado removed a portion of the roof from a residence. Portions of a metal roof were uplifted from an outbuilding along County Road 3725, causing minor tree damage. The tornado continued east northeast, crossing into Cullman County (See Storm Data WFO Huntsville) just south of County Road 1043. The tornado remained on the ground for an additional 2.14 miles in Cullman County.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindAddison-Winds were estimated around 70 mph in the town of Addison.
May 2008HailAddison-Nickel sized hail was reported from near Addison southeastward to near the Cullman County line.
March 2008Heavy RainAddison-Several inches of water was reported over Airport Road, in Addison.
March 2000HailAddison-Quarter size hail was reported in Addison.
March 2000HailAddison-Nickel size hail fell near Addison.
August 2000HailAddison-Nickel size hail was observed in Addison.
March 2011HailAddison-no account filed
March 2008HailAddison-no account filed
April 2006HailAddison-no account filed
April 2006HailAddison-no account filed
April 2000HailAddison-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Winston 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
New Georgia2.6 miles13
Inmanfield3.0 miles13
Eagle3.8 miles13
Upshaw5.6 miles17
Helicon5.7 miles13
Houston5.8 miles11
Barnett Chapel6.8 miles11
Moreland6.9 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 AddisonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q66483The 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 159051. 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.

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.