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Autaugaville, Alabama

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Autaugaville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36003. It stands on White Water Creek. The Survey maps it on the Autaugaville quadrangle. 795 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 161 feet above sea level.

Autaugaville within Autauga County

On record in Autaugaville

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 1 record

Population over time

4 figures

Autaugaville grew from 313 to 795 between 1910 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
1910313
2000820
2010870+50 (+6%)
2020795-75 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

99 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 99 fires within 5 miles of Autaugaville between 1994 and 2020, burning about 642 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 8 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 burning49
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Equipment and vehicle use14
Arson/incendiarism8
Recreation and ceremony7
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Smoking1

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
30 September 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission2226 HWY 14 W, AL
25 September 2019Smoking3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190925-14
19 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1997Debris and open burning30 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1998Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Autauga County

Storms near this place

23 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Autaugaville in 23 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 15 thunderstorm wind, 4 tornado, 3 hail, 1 flash flood. The reports record 3 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
March 1999Thunderstorm WindAutaugaville2 hurt, $150,000One of two thunderstorms that moved diagonally across Autauga County caused trees to be knocked down from the southwest corner of the county to the northeast corner of the county. The most significant damage occurred at a small community called Fig Tree on the east side of CR 1 in western Autauga County. At least four mobile homes were totally destroyed and three other mobile homes sustained minor damage. One mobilehome was rolled over a van destroying the vehicle. One building suffered major damage while two other houses sustained minor damage. Two minor injuries were reported.
November 2004Tornado (F2)Autaugaville1 hurt, $900,000no account filed
November 2005Tornado (F0)Autaugaville$34,000National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed the damage that affected the Whitewater Community and areas near Autaugaville. It has been determined that the damage was the result of a tornado. The tornado has been rated an F0 on the Fujita Damage Intensity Scale. The tornado first touched down approximately 3.2 miles west of Autaugaville near the intersection of County Road 45 and County Road 78. The tornado tracked in a northeastward direction and crossed State Highway 14, County Road 19, and County Road 165. The tornado lifted just east of the Whitewater Community, north of County Road 165. The tornado damage path was approximately 5.4 miles long and 150 yards wide at its widest point. The tornado was on the ground from approximately 641 PM CST to 651 PM CST. Along the damage path, numerous large trees were snapped off and uprooted. A garage attached to a mobile home was blown away. At another location, vinyl siding was blown off a house and a fence was blown down. One shed was totally destroyed. Some tin was peeled off a steel building.Begin: 32.4378/86.7092 End: 32.4700/86.6244
July 2005Tornado (F1)Autaugaville$14,000National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed the damage between Independence and Autaugaville and determined the damage was the result of a tornado. The tornado touched down at approximately 127 PM CDT along County Road 13, 5 miles north of Autaugaville. Several trees were snapped off or blown down along the short path. One out-building sustained damage. The tornado damage path was 1/4 of a mile long and 30 yards wide at its widest point. This tornado was spawned during Tropical Storm Cindy.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindAutaugaville$8,000A few trees were knocked down in and around the city of Autaugaville. One tree fell onto a home causing damage.
February 1997Thunderstorm WindAutaugaville$8,000no account filed
September 2011Thunderstorm WindAutaugaville$5,000Trees were reported down along County Road 13, causing damage to the awning of a travel trailer, a flat bed auto trailer, and a fence.
July 1999Thunderstorm WindAutaugaville$5,000Trees and power lines were blown down in Autaugaville. Pea size hail was also reported.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindAutaugaville$4,000Several trees were blown down on CR 45 and on CR 19 near Autaugaville.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindAutaugaville$2,000Trees were blown down along County Road 21 near Swift Creek.
October 2007Thunderstorm WindAutaugaville$2,000Numerous 2 to 3 inch tree limbs were blown down across some roads. School opening in Autaugaville was delayed until the roads could be cleared.
April 2000Thunderstorm WindAutaugaville$2,000A few trees were blown down just west of Autaugaville.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindAutaugaville$1,000Several trees and power lines were blown down on Key Road, north of Autaugaville.
April 2009Thunderstorm WindAutaugaville$500A power line was blown down on AL-14, on the west side of Autaugaville.
February 2025Thunderstorm WindAutaugaville-A 70 mph wind gust was measured on a personal weather station in Autaugaville. A social media photo was received showing a tree down on a fence in Autaugaville as well.
March 2019Thunderstorm WindAutaugaville-Several trees uprooted along County Road 45.
October 2017Tornado (EF1)Autaugaville-NWS meteorologists surveyed damage in far southern Autauga County and determined that the damage was consistent with an EF1 tornado. The tornado began just north of the Alabama River in private farmland and moved northwest across County Road 19 where it uprooted trees and snapped a few tree trunks. The tornado continued northwest crossing County Road 17 near the intersection of County Road 74 where several trees were uprooted. The tornado then continued northwest where it uprooted trees along a portion of Dutch Bend Road and snapped some tree trunks along County Road 33. The tornado moved further northwest where it crossed Alabama Highway 14 where it uprooted trees near the roadway. The tornado likely lifted in a forested area to the north of Alabama Highway 14.
June 2017Flash FloodAutaugaville-Heavy rainfall during the early morning hours produced rainfall amounts of 3-5 inches in a time span of two to three hours. Widespread flooding was reported over the eastern half of Autauga County. Up to four feet of water was reported at the intersection of Highway 82 and County Road 21. Flooding washed out portions of Manning Road. Vehicle with occupants became trapped by the rising water on County Road 59.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindAutaugaville-Several trees uprooted along County Road 19.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindAutaugaville-Several trees were reported down along Highway 14 and County Road 45, just west of Autaugaville.
March 2005HailAutaugaville-Nickel size hail was reported near Autaugaville.
April 2002HailAutaugaville-Dime size hail fell just south of Autaugaville.
May 2012HailAutaugaville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Autauga 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
White Water2.3 miles12
Old Vernon (historical)2.4 miles13
Forester3.0 miles13
Booth6.3 miles18
Peace6.4 miles12
Independence6.6 miles18
Mulberry6.7 miles12
Kalmia (historical)7.7 miles12

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 AutaugavilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q67852The 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 113299. 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.