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Axis, Alabama

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1941 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Mobile census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36505. The Survey maps it on the Creola quadrangle. 561 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 39 feet above sea level.

Axis within Mobile County

Population over time

2 figures

Axis fell from 757 to 561 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
2010757
2020561-196 (-26%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 22 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

118 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 118 fires within 5 miles of Axis between 1994 and 2020, burning about 3,150 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 48 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/incendiarism48
Debris and open burning34
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Natural6
Recreation and ceremony3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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
7 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20140907-001
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20150906-002
27 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 1997Arson/incendiarism4.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2000Natural4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 1997Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
12 August 2014Natural60 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20140812-002

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mobile County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Axis: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Clay. 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
Axis Clay QuarryClayProducer
Axis MineSand and Gravel, Construction, ClayProducerClay, Quartz

Every working recorded in Mobile County

Storms near this place

4 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Axis in 4 storm reports between 1997 and 2019: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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
October 1997Thunderstorm WindAxis$2,500The same storm that spawned a tornado near Wilmer blew down several trees and power lines as it moved across U S Highway 43 near Axis.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindAxis$1,000A severe thunderstorm wind gust downed a tree on McBride Circle South.
June 2019HailAxis-no account filed
March 2005HailAxis-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mobile 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
Le Moyne2.0 miles22
Hatters2.2 miles22
Salco2.6 miles22
Creola2.7 miles22
Pennsylvania4.1 miles30
Barry Village4.8 miles22
Junior Acres4.8 miles30
Cox Beach5.4 miles30

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 AxisAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1273464The 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 113316. 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.