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.
Population over time
3 figuresBillingsley 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 116 | |
| 2010 | 144 | +28 (+24%) |
| 2020 | 125 | -19 (-13%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 17 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1891 USGS Clanton quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1953 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Montgomery quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Billingsley quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1984 USGS Billingsley quadrangle1:24000
- 1986 USGS Clanton quadrangle1:100000
- 1987 USGS Clanton quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
153 since 1994Regional 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 burning | 67 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 30 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 19 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 15 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 12 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1995 | Recreation and ceremony | 8.5 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 September 1995 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | 27 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 27 September 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | 815 |
| 26 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 27 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20190926-12 |
| 26 September 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20190926-14 |
| 23 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 September 2004 | Arson/incendiarism | 22 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
14 since 2002Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Billingsley | $350,000 | National 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 2005 | Hail | Billingsley | $8,000 | Golf ball size hail was reported east of the Billingsley area near the intersection of US 82 and CR 19. |
| April 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Billingsley | $5,000 | Numerous trees down. |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Billingsley | $4,000 | Trees were blown down near Billingsley and in the New Prospect community at the intersection of CR 20 and CR 57. |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Billingsley | $3,000 | Trees and power lines were knocked down in Billingsley. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Billingsley | $2,000 | A few trees were blown down in Billingsley, including a few that blocked roads. |
| May 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Billingsley | $2,000 | Trees and power lines were blown down just west of Billingsley. The damage occurred along a gust front away from the main storm. |
| March 2026 | Thunderstorm Wind | Billingsley | - | Multiple trees were downed across northern and northeastern portions of Autauga County. |
| December 2018 | Tornado (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 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Billingsley | - | Roof blown off Canada Auto Sales in the city of Bessemer. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Billingsley | - | Numerous trees uprooted across northern Autauga County just east of Highway 82. |
| October 2010 | Hail | Billingsley | - | One inch hail near the Chilton/Autauga county line. |
| April 2003 | Hail | Billingsley | - | 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 2003 | Hail | Billingsley | - | Penny size hail was observed in Billingsley. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Haynes | 3.3 miles | 17 | |
| Vida | 4.1 miles | 18 | |
| Hillside (historical) | 5.0 miles | 18 | |
| Spur (historical) | 6.2 miles | 18 | |
| Vida Junction | 6.2 miles | 18 | |
| White City | 6.3 miles | 17 | |
| Bethel Grove | 7.3 miles | 16 | |
| Browntown | 7.5 miles | 18 |
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 Billingsley | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q67811 | The 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.







