Bucks, Alabama
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Mount Vernon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36512. It sits by Thirty One Mile Bluff. The Survey maps it on the Mount Vernon quadrangle. 22 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 49 feet above sea level.
On record in Bucks
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
Ellicott Stonelisted 1973
Population over time
2 figuresBucks fell from 32 to 22 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 | 32 | |
| 2020 | 22 | -10 (-31%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 16 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.
- 1943 USGS Citronelle quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1946 USGS Citronelle quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1953 USGS Hattiesburg quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Hattiesburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS Mount Vernon quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Citronelle quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Hattiesburg quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
296 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 296 fires within 5 miles of Bucks between 1994 and 2020, burning about 5,642 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 143 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 | 143 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 84 |
| Debris and open burning | 57 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | SWR-20140907-001 |
| 27 September 1995 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 10 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 21 September 1997 | Arson/incendiarism | 4.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 2 September 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | 20 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | SWR-20150902-002 |
| 2 September 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | 30 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | SWR-20150902-003 |
| 18 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 5.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 15 September 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | 128 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | SWR-20150915-002 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
4 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bucks in 4 storm reports between 1999 and 2016: 2 hail, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bucks | $25,000 | Strong thunderstorm winds produced minor damage to a manufactured home on Highway 43 near Bucks. Slightly more significant damage to a nearby outbuilding and a small boat which was sitting near the outbuilding also occurred. |
| May 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bucks | $5,000 | Severe thunderstorm wind gusts produced roof damage to a home across from the Bucks Post Office. |
| August 2000 | Hail | Bucks | - | A thunderstorm produced golfball sized hail in the community. |
| May 1999 | Hail | Bucks | - | Dime size hail was reported along US Highway 43 near Bucks. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barry Village | 0.8 miles | 22 | |
| Chastang | 1.9 miles | 16 | |
| Stage Coach Woods | 3.0 miles | 16 | |
| Salco | 3.1 miles | 22 | |
| Le Moyne | 3.6 miles | 22 | |
| Movico | 3.7 miles | 16 | |
| Mount Vernon | 5.2 miles | 16 | |
| Axis | 5.6 miles | 22 |
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 Bucks | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1292074 | 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 156129. 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.






