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Bevelle, Alabama

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Alexander City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35010. The Survey maps it on the Alexander City quadrangle.

Bevelle within Tallapoosa County

On record in Bevelle

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 within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

81 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 81 fires within 5 miles of Bevelle between 1994 and 2020, burning about 502 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 18 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 burning30
Arson/incendiarism18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Recreation and ceremony10
Equipment and vehicle use5
Fireworks1
Natural1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Other causes1

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
27 September 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190913-9
12 September 2010Debris and open burning9.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 2007Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
18 August 1996Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
11 August 2007Recreation and ceremony10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
11 August 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
6 July 2018Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20180706-1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tallapoosa 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 Bevelle: 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fluorine-Fluorite, Gold. 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
Duncan ProspectGoldOccurrenceGold
Rockford AreaFluorine-FluoriteOccurrence

Every working recorded in Tallapoosa County

Storms near this place

15 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bevelle in 15 storm reports between 2009 and 2024: 9 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 3 tornado. 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
June 2010Thunderstorm WindBevelle$25,000A large tree fell on two units of a townhouse and 3 vehicles, on Hillabee Street in Alexander City.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindBevelle$3,000Numerous trees toppled in and around Alexander City.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindBevelle$2,000A building in Alexander City sustained roof damage. Russell Field Airport measured a gust to 49 mph around this time.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindBevelle$2,000Trees were blown down at several locations in Alexander City.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindBevelle$2,000Several trees were blown down in the southern portion of Alexander City.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindBevelle-Numerous trees were downed and several buildings were damaged by a microburst in Alexander City. The Alexander City campus of Central Alabama Community College sustained damage. A sporting goods store along Highway 280 and an antique store along Calhoun St both sustained major roof and structural damage. A few homes were damaged, at least one heavily, by falling trees. The nearby Russell Field Airport registered a gust of 50 mph at 6:35 PM CDT.
January 2023Tornado (EF1)Bevelle-National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed damage in western Tallapoosa County and determined that it was consistent with an EF1 tornado, with maximum winds near 90 mph. The tornado touched down near Raintree Drive, where some trees branches were broken. The tornado tracked northeastward, crossing Highway 280, before lifting along the western shore of the Tallapoosa River just south of the County Boat Ramp. Most damage along the path was sporadic tree damage. However, a cement mixing plant near the intersection of Dadeville Road and Highway 280 suffered significant roof damage, leading to the EF1 rating.
January 2023HailBevelle-Quarter size hail reported in Alexander City.
March 2023Tornado (EF0)Bevelle-National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed damage in western Tallapoosa County and determined that it was consistent with an EF0 tornado, with maximum winds near 65 mph. A brief tornado began just north of Highway 280 and moved along an east-northeast path across Flint Hill Place. Several smaller trees uprooted around a cemetery near Flint Hill Methodist Church. The tornado continued across County Road 21 and Dadeville Road. Several pine trees were uprooted on the north side of Dadeville Road before the tornado dissipated.
May 2019HailBevelle-Nickel size hail reported near the intersection of Airport Drive and Dadeville Road.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindBevelle-Numerous trees uprooted across Tallapoosa County.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindBevelle-Several trees were blown down on a house and a car on Dean Road just off Highway 280 on the east side of Alexander City.
May 2014Tornado (EF0)Bevelle-A brief tornado, with maximum winds of 85 mph, touched down in west-central Tallapoosa County, approximately 1.6 miles southeast of Alexander City and just south of Highway 280, where a few trees were uprooted. The tornado continued northward across Highway 280 and uprooted nearly two dozen trees in the Fairlane Community. One house in the community sustained damage due to a fallen tree, and one car sustained damage due to a fallen tree. The tornado crossed Dadeville Road and ripped an awning off a church, removed shingles from a house, and uprooted several hardwood trees along Davis Road and Wayside Circle. The tornado crossed Sanders Road causing minor tree damage before ending just south of Jim Pearson Elementary School.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindBevelle-A tree was uprooted in Alexander City.
April 2009HailBevelle-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Tallapoosa 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
Valley View0.9 miles12
Alexander City1.5 miles12
Flint Hill1.6 miles12
Elkahatchee Park1.8 miles12
Sherwood Forest1.8 miles12
Parish Hills2.4 miles12
Elkahatchee Heights2.7 miles12
Dobbs3.1 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.

Wikidata item Q122542317The 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 155741. 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.