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Brantley, Alabama

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Brantley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36009. It stands on Moody Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Brantley quadrangle. 825 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 295 feet above sea level.

Brantley within Crenshaw County

On record in Brantley

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

Population over time

2 figures

Brantley grew from 809 to 825 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
2010809
2020825+16 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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

55 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Brantley between 1994 and 2019, burning about 337 acres in total. None started naturally. 13 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 burning24
Arson/incendiarism13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Recreation and ceremony5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
31 August 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
31 May 2008Debris and open burning55 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionOFF U.S. HWY 331, AL
26 May 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20190526-2
18 May 2001Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
17 May 2000Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
14 May 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission12839 OPP HWY, AL
14 May 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commission12839 OPP HWY SOUTH OF BRANTLEY, AL
14 May 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionN.GRAVEL, AL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crenshaw County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Brantley: 3 unknowns, 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, 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
Cre 1 Clay ProspectClayProspect
J S Layton ProspectIronProspect
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown

Every working recorded in Crenshaw County

Storms near this place

34 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brantley in 34 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 25 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 2 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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 2016Thunderstorm WindBrantley$40,000Winds estimated at 70 mph damaged multiple structures in Brantley.
October 2007Thunderstorm WindBrantley$30,000no account filed
July 2007Thunderstorm WindBrantley$25,000A severe thunderstorm produced high winds that damaged a house and downed trees in Brantley.
December 2008Thunderstorm WindBrantley$20,000Trees were downed in Brantley and a roof was damaged.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindBrantley$15,000Winds estimated at 60 mph partially removed a roof from a single family home. A tree was also blown over onto the house.
May 2006Thunderstorm WindBrantley$15,000High winds from a thunderstorm blew part of a roof off a home near Weed (near the intersection of State Highway 141 and County Road 43).
February 2008Thunderstorm WindBrantley$12,000no account filed
July 2012Thunderstorm WindBrantley$10,000Winds estimated at 70 mph downed several trees in the Brantley area with some homes damaged. US Hwy 331 blocked due to downed trees.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindBrantley$10,000Trees were blown down near Brantley by high winds from a thunderstorm. Dime size hail was also reported with the storm.
October 1995Tornado (F0)Brantley$10,000A tornado briefly touched down near Brantley on U.S. Highway 29. Several trees and power lines were blown down.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindBrantley$8,000High winds from a thunderstorm blew trees down near Brantley.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindBrantley$5,000High winds downed several trees along Spring Hill Road.
February 2016Thunderstorm WindBrantley$5,000A barn on Emmett Avenue was destroyed due to severe thunderstorm winds.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindBrantley$5,000Winds estimated at 60 mph downed trees in Brantly.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindBrantley$5,000High winds from a thunderstorm blew down several trees just west of Brantley.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindBrantley$3,000Winds estimated at 60 mph downed trees in Brantley.
March 2016Thunderstorm WindBrantley$2,000Winds estimated at 60 mph downed trees and power lines.
March 2016Thunderstorm WindBrantley$2,000Winds estimated at 60 mph downed trees in Brantley.
February 2025Thunderstorm WindBrantley-Tree blocking US Hwy 331.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindBrantley-High winds downed trees in Brantly causing damage to a house.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindBrantley-High winds downed numerous trees and power lines.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindBrantley-Multiple trees were downed in Brantley, AL.
March 2022HailBrantley-Dime to Quarter size hail covering the ground.
November 2022Thunderstorm WindBrantley-High winds downed trees and power lines.
April 2021HailBrantley-Crenshaw County EMA reports golf ball size hail.
April 2021HailBrantley-Quarter to half dollar size hail reported near Brantley.
May 2021Thunderstorm WindBrantley-High winds downed a tree near MM32 on Highway 189.
March 2021Thunderstorm WindBrantley-A large swath of damaging winds caused numerous reports of downed trees and power lines in and around Brantly.
March 2021Tornado (EF1)Brantley-The tornado first touched down at the corner of Glenwood Road and Melvin Wallace Road where it snapped an area of trees. The tornado then continued northeast across Nelvin Wallace Road where to reached peak intensity snapping several pines, uprooting several oak trees and removing the roof of an out building. Eventually the tornado lifted just south of N Brunson Chapel Road but nor before snapping a few more pine trees.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindBrantley-Numerous trees were downed by a severe thunderstorm between Brantley and Luverne.
December 2009Flash FloodBrantley-Powell Road closed due to water covering the roadway.
March 2000HailBrantley-Local EMA reported dime sized hail at Brantley.
May 1995HailBrantley-Hail from half-inch to about dime-size was reported at Brantley.
December 2012Funnel CloudBrantley-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Crenshaw 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
Peacock (historical)2.6 miles7
Theba3.1 miles7
Weed Crossroad4.7 miles7
Carmen5.0 miles8
Bullock5.1 miles7
New Hope5.3 miles7
Glenwood7.3 miles8
Leon7.4 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 BrantleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q66351The 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 154995. 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.