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Billingsley, Alabama

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Billingsley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36006. The Survey maps it on the Billingsley quadrangle. 125 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 371 feet above sea level.

Billingsley within Autauga County

Population over time

3 figures

Billingsley grew from 116 to 125 between 2000 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
2000116
2010144+28 (+24%)
2020125-19 (-13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

153 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 153 fires within 5 miles of Billingsley between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,107 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 19 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 burning67
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Arson/incendiarism19
Recreation and ceremony15
Equipment and vehicle use12
Natural5
Misuse of fire by a minor3
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
9 September 1995Recreation and ceremony8.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1995Debris and open burning1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2007Debris and open burning27 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission815
26 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined27 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190926-12
26 September 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190926-14
23 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2004Arson/incendiarism22 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Autauga County

Storms near this place

14 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Billingsley in 14 storm reports between 2002 and 2026: 9 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 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
April 2005Thunderstorm WindBillingsley$350,000National Weather Service meteorologist surveyed the damage in Billingsley and determined the damage was caused by straight line winds. A strong line of thunderstorms moved across central Alabama during the afternoon hours. The isolated damage was mainly confined to the Billingsley School property near the intersection of CR 77 and Tom Turner Road. This location was about 1 mile east of Billingsley. A large section of the metal roofing on the school was peeled back. Ceiling insulation and small metal debris littered areas downwind. The exposed classrooms sustained additional damage from rain. Several windows were broken out or cracked by airborne debris. One air conditioner was thrown on its side and damaged. A few trees east of the school were snapped off. Several vehicles in the parking lot suffered dents and broken windows from flying debris.
March 2005HailBillingsley$8,000Golf ball size hail was reported east of the Billingsley area near the intersection of US 82 and CR 19.
April 2006Thunderstorm WindBillingsley$5,000Numerous trees down.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindBillingsley$4,000Trees were blown down near Billingsley and in the New Prospect community at the intersection of CR 20 and CR 57.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindBillingsley$3,000Trees and power lines were knocked down in Billingsley.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindBillingsley$2,000A few trees were blown down in Billingsley, including a few that blocked roads.
May 2002Thunderstorm WindBillingsley$2,000Trees and power lines were blown down just west of Billingsley. The damage occurred along a gust front away from the main storm.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindBillingsley-Multiple trees were downed across northern and northeastern portions of Autauga County.
December 2018Tornado (EF0)Billingsley-National Weather Service meteorologists surveyed damage in Autauga County and determined that it was consistent with an EF0 tornado, with maximum sustained winds near 65 mph. The tornado touched down in an inaccessible area approximately one-third of a mile north of the intersection of Highway 82 and County Road 37. At this intersection, storm chaser video shows what appears to be a funnel cloud with rising motion just west of Highway 82. Seconds later, rear-flank downdraft (RFD) winds are also evident as the storm chaser relocates to the south. This matches up well with radar data from KBMX, and a tornado debris signature (TDS) is noted downstream approximately two minutes after the video ended. This TDS was also observed from KMXX radar. Around the time of the initial TDS from KBMX, a second video from the same storm chaser was taken one-half mile south of the first video, showing an occluding circulation and RFD clear slot.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindBillingsley-Roof blown off Canada Auto Sales in the city of Bessemer.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindBillingsley-Numerous trees uprooted across northern Autauga County just east of Highway 82.
October 2010HailBillingsley-One inch hail near the Chilton/Autauga county line.
April 2003HailBillingsley-Supercell 2 continued on the heels of supercell 1, although it was much weaker. The storm produced penny to quarter size hail as it moved across northeast Autauga County. The hail may have been larger in rural areas.
June 2003HailBillingsley-Penny size hail was observed in Billingsley.

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
Haynes3.3 miles17
Vida4.1 miles18
Hillside (historical)5.0 miles18
Spur (historical)6.2 miles18
Vida Junction6.2 miles18
White City6.3 miles17
Bethel Grove7.3 miles16
Browntown7.5 miles18

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 BillingsleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q67811The 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 151686. 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.