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Camp Hill, Alabama

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Camp Hill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36850. It stands on Little Sandy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Camp Hill quadrangle. 1,006 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 712 feet above sea level.

Camp Hill within Tallapoosa County

Population over time

3 figures

Camp Hill fell from 1,273 to 1,006 between 2000 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
20001,273
20101,014-259 (-20%)
20201,006-8 (-1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

109 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 109 fires within 5 miles of Camp Hill between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,029 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 38 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/incendiarism38
Debris and open burning36
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Recreation and ceremony6
Natural5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1
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
6 September 2008Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionHWY 50, AL
4 September 1995Debris and open burning1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160930-12
30 September 2016Debris and open burning60 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160930-2
3 September 2006Arson/incendiarism26 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tallapoosa County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Camp Hill: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mica. 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
Dock Heard MineMicaPast Producer

Every working recorded in Tallapoosa County

Storms near this place

11 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Camp Hill in 11 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 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
June 2010Thunderstorm WindCamp Hill$10,000A tree was blown down onto a house and truck, along Old Highway 280 near Camp Hill.
September 2009Flash FloodCamp Hill$5,000Several roads around Camp Hill, including AL-50 and CR-89, had to be closed due to high water making them temporarily impassable.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindCamp Hill$3,000Trees and power lines were reported down by state troopers in the Camp Hill area of southeast Tallapoosa County.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindCamp Hill$2,000Several trees were blown down in Camp Hill.
June 2002Thunderstorm WindCamp Hill$2,000Trees and power lines were blown down near Camp Hill.
March 2023HailCamp Hill-Golf ball size hail reported in Camp Hill.
March 2023HailCamp Hill-Baseball size hail reported in Camp Hill with numerous vehicle windows shattered.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindCamp Hill-Several trees were uprooted in the town of Camp Hill.
May 2003HailCamp Hill-Penny to nickel size hail was observed in and near Camp Hill.
March 2013HailCamp Hill-no account filed
July 2005Tornado (F0)Camp Hill-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Tallapoosa 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
Slaughters2.0 miles11
Pinnell3.1 miles11
Spinks3.2 miles12
Pine Grove3.4 miles11
Mary3.6 miles11
Agricola5.0 miles11
Smith Crossroads (historical)5.2 miles10
Dadeville6.2 miles12

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 Camp HillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q66450The 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 115465. 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.