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Arley, Alabama

11 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 35541. The Survey maps it on the Arley quadrangle. 330 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 778 feet above sea level.

Arley within Winston County

Population over time

2 figures

Arley fell from 357 to 330 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
2010357
2020330-27 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

119 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 119 fires within 5 miles of Arley between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,817 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 62 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/incendiarism62
Debris and open burning31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Recreation and ceremony7
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Natural3
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Fireworks1

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
9 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 1998Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 1998Arson/incendiarism1.3 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1995Arson/incendiarism6.0 acresNational Forests in AlabamaCHAMPION
5 September 2000Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2018Debris and open burning31 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20180904-2
4 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1999Arson/incendiarism180 acresNational Forests in AlabamaFORSYTH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Winston County

Storms near this place

26 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Arley in 26 storm reports between 1994 and 2020: 14 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 4 lightning, 1 tornado. The reports record 6 injuries. 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
November 2002Tornado (F3)Arley5 hurt, $300,000no account filed
April 1996LightningArley1 hurt, $2,000no account filed
November 2003Thunderstorm WindArley$117,000What was believed to be thunderstorm wind totally destroyed one two-story house and caused minor damage to several others. Two floating boat houses were totally destroyed along with numerous downed trees. The damage area was about 4 tenths of a mile wide but only about 400 yards deep immediately on the northern edge of Smith Lake in Winston County. The strong wind was able to destroy the one house due to relatively poor construction including lack of vertical tie-ins between floor, walls, and roof.
September 2006LightningArley$50,000Lightning struck a mobile home, causing it to burn down.
April 1998Thunderstorm WindArley$30,000There were several trees reported down and porches were blown off a few lake homes in the area along Smith Lake southeast of Arley.
June 2003Thunderstorm WindArley$27,000One mobile home was destroyed, a few power poles were blown down, and the roof of one home was damaged just south of Arley. Marble size hail was also reported with this storm.
February 2001Thunderstorm WindArley$5,000Trees were knocked down just south of Arley. An automobile collided with a downed tree on CR 41. No injuries were reported.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindArley$5,000Several trees were down in the southern Arley area.
May 2002LightningArley$4,000A home was struck by lightning in Arley. Minor damage was reported. Pea size hail was also reported with this storm.
October 1997HailArley$3,000no account filed
July 2003Thunderstorm WindArley$2,000A few trees were knocked down in Arley.
July 2002LightningArley$2,000Lightning struck the Dairy Barn near Arley. The business sustained minor damage.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindArley$1,000Power lines were blown down across County Roads 41 and 275, south of Arley.
April 2005Thunderstorm WindArley$1,000A few trees were blown down in and around Arley.
September 1995Thunderstorm WindArley$1,000Several small pine trees were reported downed by the wind in the Arley area of Winston County. One tree fell on a power line.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindArley-Several trees uprooted in the town of Arley.
March 2019Thunderstorm WindArley-Several trees uprooted on Hickory Lane.
March 2019HailArley-Large hail reported on Hickory Lane.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindArley-Trees uprooted and blocking both lanes near First Baptist Church in the town of Arley.
October 2014Thunderstorm WindArley-House damaged by uprooted tree on Highway 47 south of the town of Arley.
May 2003Funnel CloudArley-A funnel cloud was sighted near SR 257 on Smith Lake.
April 1999HailArley-Dime size hail fell in Arley.
January 1999HailArley-Dime size hail was reported near Arley.
March 1994Thunderstorm WindArley-Thunderstorm wind downed trees up to 18 inches in diameter which also downed power lines.
April 2014HailArley-no account filed
March 2010HailArley-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
Eagle4.9 miles13
Houston4.9 miles11
Sachs Bottoms (historical)5.0 miles11
Helicon5.1 miles13
Falls City5.3 miles11
Big Oak (historical)5.5 miles11
Corinth (historical)6.1 miles11
Wilson Bend6.2 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 ArleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q66730The 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 159081. 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.