Brantleyville, Alabama
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Montevallo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35114. It lies near Opossum Valley. The Survey maps it on the Alabaster quadrangle. 931 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 554 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresBrantleyville grew from 884 to 931 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 884 | |
| 2020 | 931 | +47 (+5%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 19 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.
- 1890 USGS Bessemer quadrangle1:125000
- 1892 USGS Bessemer quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1910 USGS Montevallo quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1953 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Birmingham quadrangle1:250000
- 1975 USGS Montevallo NE quadrangle1:24000
- 1980 USGS Alabaster quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1984 USGS Birmingham South quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
133 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 133 fires within 5 miles of Brantleyville between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,837 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 51 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/incendiarism | 51 |
| Debris and open burning | 37 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 23 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 8 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 6 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 September 1995 | Debris and open burning | 60 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 September 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 1994 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 24 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 21 September 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 35 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 20 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 11 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Brantleyville: 6 producers, 3 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 prospect. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron, Calcium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alabaster Lime Plant | Calcium | Past Producer | ||
| Landmark Quarry & Lime Mill | Calcium | Producer | ||
| Longview | Iron | Past Producer | Residual | |
| Siluria, W Of | Iron | Past Producer | Residual | |
| Unnamed | Iron | Unknown | ||
| Unnamed Prospect | Iron | Prospect | ||
| Helena Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Maylene Quarry No. 4 | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Montevallo Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Scotrock Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this place
2 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brantleyville in 2 storm reports between 2009 and 2023: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Brantleyville | $30,000 | Tree uprooted and fell on a manufactured home, slicing it in half. |
| February 2009 | Hail | Brantleyville | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Straven | 0.8 miles | 18 | |
| Eaglewood Estates | 1.1 miles | 19 | |
| Maylene | 1.1 miles | 19 | |
| Woodland Hills | 1.6 miles | 19 | |
| Old Maylene | 1.7 miles | 19 | |
| Tulse | 2.5 miles | 18 | |
| Willow Glen | 2.5 miles | 19 | |
| Mission Hills | 2.6 miles | 19 |
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 Brantleyville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1262305 | 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 121304. 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.








