BlockBefore

Boligee, Alabama

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Boligee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35443. The Survey maps it on the Boligee quadrangle. 301 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 121 feet above sea level.

Boligee within Greene County

On record in Boligee

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 1 record

Surveyed buildings and structures 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Boligee fell from 328 to 301 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
2010328
2020301-27 (-8%)

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.

Photographs

3 photographs,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Greene County Courthouse, Main & Boligee Streets, Prairie & Monroe Avenues, Eutaw, Greene County, AL
Greene County Courthouse, Main & Boligee Streets, Prairie & Monroe Avenues, Eutaw, Greene County, AL
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Hill of Howth, County Road 19, Boligee, Greene County, AL
Hill of Howth, County Road 19, Boligee, Greene County, AL
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Weston (House & Schoolhouse), U.S. Route 11 & County Road 19 vicinity, Boligee, Greene County, AL
Weston (House & Schoolhouse), U.S. Route 11 & County Road 19 vicinity, Boligee, Greene County, AL
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

91 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 91 fires within 5 miles of Boligee between 1994 and 2020, burning about 520 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 32 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/incendiarism32
Debris and open burning18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Smoking11
Equipment and vehicle use9
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
28 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined39 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionNWR-20150926-001
25 September 1999Smoking1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2004Smokingunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1997Smoking3.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission20190808-2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greene County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Boligee: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Swilley's Bend QuarrySilica, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerQuartz
Bell PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Thetford PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Greene County

Storms near this place

10 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Boligee in 10 storm reports between 1995 and 2017: 5 thunderstorm wind, 5 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
April 2004Thunderstorm WindBoligee$200,000no account filed
April 2004HailBoligee$30,000no account filed
March 2005Thunderstorm WindBoligee$12,000Several trees and power lines were blown down just off Interstate 20 near Boligee.
June 1998Thunderstorm WindBoligee$10,000Numerous trees and power lines were down in the Boligee community. About 3000 people were without power for over 5 hours.
February 1995Thunderstorm WindBoligee$5,000Thunderstorm wind was responsible for knocking the tops out of trees and causing damage to several houses.
April 1998HailBoligee$2,000Hail the size of quarters was reported near Boligee.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindBoligee-Several trees uprooted and power lines downed in the city of Boligee.
February 2007HailBoligee-Observed along I-20 near Boligee.
March 2005HailBoligee-Nickel size hail was reported in Boligee.
March 2005HailBoligee-Penny size hail briefly fell along SR 39 just east of the Tombigbee River.

Every storm recorded in Greene 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
Lizzieville2.2 miles9
Five Points2.4 miles13
Fowler2.6 miles13
Allison3.5 miles15
Hycutt3.8 miles13
Miller4.0 miles13
Crawford Fork4.5 miles9
Braggville5.3 miles13

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 BoligeeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q68009The 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 114691. 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.