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Beatrice, Alabama

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Beatrice census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36425. The Survey maps it on the Beatrice quadrangle. 204 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 269 feet above sea level.

Beatrice within Monroe County

On record in Beatrice

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Beatrice fell from 301 to 204 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
2010301
2020204-97 (-32%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

61 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Beatrice between 1994 and 2019, burning about 393 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 5 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 burning23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Recreation and ceremony10
Arson/incendiarism5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Natural2
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
9 September 2016Debris and open burning15 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160909-17
6 September 2002Debris and open burning40 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 1999Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
31 August 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 August 2000Debris and open burning8.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 August 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission247 4TH STREET, AL
11 August 2015Natural1.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20150811-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Beatrice: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Mon 1 Clay ProspectClayProspect

Every working recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this place

7 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beatrice in 7 storm reports between 1995 and 2021: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 hail, 1 funnel cloud. 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
March 2001LightningBeatrice$500,000Lightning struck a tree near Beatrice Elementary School just before school opened. The lightning ran through the roots of the tree and caught the gymnasium on fire. The gym was completely destroyed. The remainder of the school suffered only minor damage from the fire.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindBeatrice$10,000Thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 60 mph caused roof damage and blew a steeple off of a church.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindBeatrice$1,500Several trees and power lines were blown down in Beatrice.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindBeatrice-High winds downed trees in Beatrice.
April 2011Funnel CloudBeatrice-SkyWarn storm spotter reports funnel cloud approximately 1 mile north-northwest of Beatrice community.
April 2011Tornado (EF1)Beatrice-Tornado snapped, uprooted or twisted off several hardwood and softwood trees along the path.
October 2004HailBeatrice-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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
Pineville1.6 miles9
Kalem2.0 miles9
Natchez3.0 miles7
Turkestan (historical)4.0 miles7
Turnbull4.1 miles9
Riley4.2 miles9
Buena Vista4.7 miles7
Chestnut5.3 miles7

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 BeatriceAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q66224The 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 113705. 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.