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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.

Bucks within Mobile County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Bucks 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.

YearPeople Change
201032
202022-10 (-31%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

296 since 1994

Regional 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/incendiarism143
Missing data/not specified/undetermined84
Debris and open burning57
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1

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
7 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20140907-001
27 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1999Arson/incendiarism10 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 1997Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2015Arson/incendiarism20 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20150902-002
2 September 2015Arson/incendiarism30 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20150902-003
18 September 1999Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2015Arson/incendiarism128 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSWR-20150915-002

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mobile County

Storms near this place

4 since 1999

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
December 2001Thunderstorm WindBucks$25,000Strong 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 2016Thunderstorm WindBucks$5,000Severe thunderstorm wind gusts produced roof damage to a home across from the Bucks Post Office.
August 2000HailBucks-A thunderstorm produced golfball sized hail in the community.
May 1999HailBucks-Dime size hail was reported along US Highway 43 near Bucks.

Every storm recorded in Mobile 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
Barry Village0.8 miles22
Chastang1.9 miles16
Stage Coach Woods3.0 miles16
Salco3.1 miles22
Le Moyne3.6 miles22
Movico3.7 miles16
Mount Vernon5.2 miles16
Axis5.6 miles22

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 BucksAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1292074The 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.