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Carolina, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Falco census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36420. The Survey maps it on the Carolina quadrangle. 286 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 328 feet above sea level.

Carolina within Covington County

Population over time

2 figures

Carolina fell from 297 to 286 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
2010297
2020286-11 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

65 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Carolina between 1994 and 2020, burning about 274 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 6 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
Equipment and vehicle use11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Arson/incendiarism6
Recreation and ceremony6
Natural3
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
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
30 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1994Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionZELL READY RD, AL
28 August 2011Arson/incendiarism15 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionCR 55, AL
24 August 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 August 2007Natural3.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
24 August 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
14 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined11 acresAlabama Forestry CommissionSER-20150814-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Covington County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Carolina: 3 unknowns, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
Unnamed DepositIronOccurrence

Every working recorded in Covington 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
Beck3.2 miles8
Libertyville3.5 miles7
Stanley5.0 miles7
Andalusia5.2 miles8
Lakeview (historical)5.3 miles7
Montezuma (historical)5.6 miles8
Fairfield6.3 miles8
River Falls7.8 miles8

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 CarolinaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q67586The 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 159327. 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.