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.
Population over time
2 figuresAddison 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 758 | |
| 2020 | 659 | -99 (-13%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 13 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1956 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1963 USGS Gadsden quadrangle1:250000
- 1969 USGS Addison quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1980 USGS Haleyville quadrangle1:100000
- 2000 USGS Addison quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
84 since 1992Regional 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/incendiarism | 58 |
| Debris and open burning | 11 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 26 September 2000 | Natural | 15 acres | National Forests in Alabama | UPSHAW |
| 20 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.5 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20190920-18 |
| 19 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 17 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 2.5 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 16 September 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 15 September 2010 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 65 acres | National Forests in Alabama | THREE DAY |
| 25 August 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 13 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
27 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Addison | $50,000 | Trees fell on three cars destroying one, and a tree fell on a mobile home cutting it in half, in the Helicon community. |
| September 1996 | Tornado (F1) | Addison | $45,000 | no account filed |
| September 1996 | Tornado (F0) | Addison | $20,000 | no account filed |
| January 1997 | Hail | Addison | $10,000 | no account filed |
| January 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Addison | $4,000 | no account filed |
| August 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Addison | $3,000 | Several trees were reported down in Addison with one blocking a road. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Addison | $2,500 | Several trees were blown down on CR-41, north of Addison, and subsequently damaged a fence. |
| July 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Addison | $2,000 | Power lines were blown down in Addison. |
| February 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Addison | $2,000 | A few trees were blown down in the northeast part of Winston County near Addison. |
| May 1998 | Hail | Addison | $2,000 | Hail the size of quarters was reported in Addison. |
| October 1997 | Hail | Addison | $2,000 | no account filed |
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Addison | - | Numerous trees were uprooted in the Addison and Arley areas. |
| March 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Addison | - | Several trees uprooted along Old Highway 278. |
| March 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Addison | - | Several trees uprooted and power lines downed along Sardis Airport Road. |
| October 2014 | Hail | Addison | - | Hail up to the size of quarters reported in the city of Addison. |
| January 2013 | Tornado (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 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Addison | - | Winds were estimated around 70 mph in the town of Addison. |
| May 2008 | Hail | Addison | - | Nickel sized hail was reported from near Addison southeastward to near the Cullman County line. |
| March 2008 | Heavy Rain | Addison | - | Several inches of water was reported over Airport Road, in Addison. |
| March 2000 | Hail | Addison | - | Quarter size hail was reported in Addison. |
| March 2000 | Hail | Addison | - | Nickel size hail fell near Addison. |
| August 2000 | Hail | Addison | - | Nickel size hail was observed in Addison. |
| March 2011 | Hail | Addison | - | no account filed |
| March 2008 | Hail | Addison | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Addison | - | no account filed |
| April 2006 | Hail | Addison | - | no account filed |
| April 2000 | Hail | Addison | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Georgia | 2.6 miles | 13 | |
| Inmanfield | 3.0 miles | 13 | |
| Eagle | 3.8 miles | 13 | |
| Upshaw | 5.6 miles | 17 | |
| Helicon | 5.7 miles | 13 | |
| Houston | 5.8 miles | 11 | |
| Barnett Chapel | 6.8 miles | 11 | |
| Moreland | 6.9 miles | 11 |
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 Addison | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q66483 | The 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.






