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Ashville, Alabama

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1889 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Ashville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35953. It stands on Locust Branch. The Survey maps it on the Ashville quadrangle. 2,346 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 577 feet above sea level.

Ashville within St. Clair County

On record in Ashville

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 8 records

Population over time

2 figures

Ashville grew from 2,212 to 2,346 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
20102,212
20202,346+134 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 19 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

208 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 208 fires within 5 miles of Ashville between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,916 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 71 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 burning87
Arson/incendiarism71
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Recreation and ceremony13
Equipment and vehicle use8
Smoking4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 1998Debris and open burning6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 1995Debris and open burning3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2002Arson/incendiarism10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1995Debris and open burning6.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1998Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1999Arson/incendiarism22 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2002Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2002Debris and open burning2.0 acresAlabama 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

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Ashville: 3 prospects, 2 occurrences, 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Aluminum, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Barium-Barite. 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
A T Cox ProspectBarium-BariteProspect
Dobbins QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerQuartz
Hebble MineAluminumPast Producer
Unnamed ProspectIronProspect
Unnamed ProspectIronProspect
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIronOccurrence

Every working recorded in St. Clair County

Storms near this place

31 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ashville in 31 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 20 thunderstorm wind, 9 hail, 1 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. The reports record 2 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
December 2000Tornado (F2)Ashville2 hurt, $175,000In St. Clair County, an F2 tornado track extended from near Cool Springs to south of Ashville to near Gum Springs Church. The total track was 8.5 miles long and about 200 yards wide at its widest point. The tornado began at 220 PM on County Road 31, just west of Cool Springs. The tornado lifted around 231 PM about 3 miles east of Ashville. Four houses sustained significant damage and two mobile homes were annihilated. A baseball park was damaged at the Ashville High School. Two injuries occurred near the beginning of the tornado track near Cool Springs. Beginning: 33 47.292/86 19.737 Ending: 33 50.819/86 12.055
February 1999Thunderstorm WindAshville$240,000Significant straight line wind damage occurred in NE St. Clair County. The damage length was 3 miles and the average damage width was 1/4 mile. The damage paralleled CR 24 starting near Lickskillet Road and ended in the Lakeview Canyon Road area. The Oldham Chapel Church fellowship hall was destroyed. One house had its roof blown off and an adjacent garage was pushed off its foundation. Several mobile homes were damaged and one was destroyed. Hundreds of trees were either uprooted or snapped off and power lines were blown down.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindAshville$8,000Several trees were blown down and blocking the road on US Highway 231 just south of State Highway 33.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindAshville$5,000Trees and power lines were blown down in the Cool Springs Community.
April 2002HailAshville$5,000Golf ball size hail was observed 3 miles north of US 231 between Steele and Ashville.
May 1997Thunderstorm WindAshville$5,000Trees were down and power was out in Ashville.
June 1994Thunderstorm WindAshville$5,000Trees were reported down in the Ashville area of St. Clair County.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindAshville$3,000Several trees were blown down on Greensport Road in Ashville.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindAshville$3,000Trees and power lines were blown down on 8th Street.
April 1997HailAshville$3,000Three-quarter inch hail was covering the ground in Ashville and was reported between Steele and Ashville.
April 2009Thunderstorm WindAshville$2,000Trees were blown down at several locations in the city of Ashville.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindAshville$2,000Several trees were knocked down on CR 33 near Ashville.
April 2005HailAshville$1,000Quarter size hail was observed in and around Ashville.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindAshville$1,000A few trees were blown down in Ashville.
February 2025Thunderstorm WindAshville-Trees were downed in the Ashville area.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindAshville-Multiple trees were downed in the Ashville area.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindAshville-Trees were downed in the Ashville area.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindAshville-Numerous trees uprooted and power lines downed around the city of Ashville.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindAshville-Fire started when power lines were downed in the city of Ashville.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindAshville-Numerous trees reported across northern St. Clair County west of the city of Ashville.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindAshville-Several trees uprooted near the town of Ashville.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindAshville-Several trees uprooted and power lines downed in city of Ashville.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindAshville-Several trees were uprooted and blown into power lines.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindAshville-Several trees were uprooted near the junction of Highway 231 and Shoal Creek Road.
April 2000HailAshville-Penny size hail was reported in Ashville.
April 1995HailAshville-Hail the size of dimes was reported at Ashville.
July 2013HailAshville-no account filed
July 2013HailAshville-no account filed
May 2011HailAshville-no account filed
April 2006Funnel CloudAshville-no account filed
April 2006HailAshville-no account filed

Every storm 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
Whitney2.9 miles19
Pinedale Shores3.2 miles19
Whitney Junction3.5 miles19
Cool Springs4.8 miles19
Gilbert5.5 miles22
Caldwell6.1 miles19
Hood6.4 miles22
Fairview7.0 miles24

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 AshvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q79396The 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 164539. 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.